Re: Authentication unconditionally built into 2.5S13

ons 2006-03-15 klockan 14:38 -0500 skrev Steve Snyder:
> I have no need for authentication and so I have no references to any auth
> options in my 2.5S13 configuration. Despite this, library auth/libbasic.a
> is always built and linked into the squid executable.
>
> If no authentication has been explicitly configured then AUTH_MODULES will
> not have been set when we get down to here in the script. Effectively, no
> authentication specifies basic authentication.

Yes, this is and has always been the default..

> Adding the --disable-auth switch to the config command line fixes this
> problem by avoiding those 2 lines above. Alas, it creates a new problem
> as the auth/Makefile isn't smart enough to know that there is nothing to
> do:

Right. I do not think anyone has considered this case.

Looked at your patch and it looks somewhat reasonable. Please file a bug
report for it however. <http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/>

Regards
Henrik