> > I'm trying to use password authentication with 2.5 on a > Debian unstable box.
What do you mean by 'unstable' ? > Squid itself is working fine, and I've used password > authentication on 2.4 > successfully so I do have an idea of the mechanism. I don't > have any very > sophisticated requirements, and in fact my needs should be > met by the samples > in the sample config file. At the moment, in my config file > for password > authentication I just have these 6 lines different from my > regular config: > > > auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid.passwd > auth_param basic children 5 > auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server > auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours > acl external_users proxy_auth REQUIRED > http_access allow external_users > > The first 4 lines above are simply obtained by uncommenting > the lines from the > sample config (the first line also had to be completed) - the > last two are > quite simple. If I include the lines above in my squid.conf, > no clients can > connect to squid. Telnetting to the port simply gets > connection refused. > > The same applies if I don't even have the acl defined or used > i.e. if I simply > have the 4 lines above beginning auth_param in the config > file - no squid for > anybody. > > So, for the moment I have removed the offending lines. Can > someone please > suggest where I'm going wrong? In case of the 'problem situation' what's reported in cache.log when squid starts ? M.
