Authentication for squid

[varian_1]

Hi,
I want to use authentication for squid using some authentication method , is it possible that these features are inbuilt in the rpm pacakage or i need to complile the squid using the authentication modules and you have some document using samba to authenticate for red hat linux AS 3

Thanks In Advance.

Regards
Walter

[Stuart Browne]

The RPM package includes multiple authentication methods.

You just have to enable one of them in the configuration.

The different authentication modules available are in '/usr/lib/squid/'. Read '/usr/share/doc/squid-*/FAQ-19.html' for details on how to enable it.

[Stuart Browne]

.. and FAQ-23.html ;P

[Muthukumar_5]

Squid is having a lot of authentication methods. We can know the configuration setting of squid with /sbin/squid -v

It will give all details. If you are having --enable-basic-auth-helpers=LDAP,NCSA,PAM,SMB,SASL,MSNT --enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB,winbind --enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group,unix_group,wbinfo_group,winbind_group

We have to have SMB and winbind_group for samba authenticaion.

There is a document in squid-cache.org at,
http://www.comfsm.fm/computing/squid/FAQ-23.html

It contains all configuration setting(s) and as well reference links too.