Re: Authentification

I Think the best way then is to use radius, You can find that from
squin.nlanr.net page i did not use that but i have read about this it gave
you same authentication as /etc/passwd.

With Regards
Ahsan Khan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladas Lapinskas" <vladas@mail.iae.lt>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:47 PM
Subject: Authentification

> Dear squid managers!
>
> I would like to use my /etc/passwd file to authentifiacte users.
> Which program can I use to authentificate against passwd?
> Is it a good reason to create a special file for squid rather than use
> passwd?
> As I understand, password is sent in Base64 format, and even reading
> mail via pop3 will send user password in a clear text. I would like to
> use one password for mail, ftp, squid, etc in the intranet. So, I do not
> think security is the reason in my case...
>
> One more question - will I have problems with sites protected via Basic
> HTTP authentification?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> ---
> Vladas Lapinskas.
>
Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 10:37:33 MST