Re: [squid-users] The NCSA_AUTH

Looks good.

Try running it manually as "nobody".

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Jurgen Hart wrote:
>
> Everything is ok on execution permisions and so,
> maybe I put a wrong directive n the squid.conf
>
> i put :
>
> authenticate_program /usr/local/squid/bin/ncsa_auth
> /usr/local/squid/etc/passwd
>
> is this right or must I do it in another way ??
> My squid version is : 2.4.STABLE2
>
> Regards
>
> Jurgen Hart
>
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > Check the permissions on /usr/local/squid/bin/ and the leading
> > directories, maybe it is missing execute permission for "others".
> >
> > Note: binaries and configurations should normally not be owned or
> > writable by the cache_effective_user and certainly not by "nobody".
> > Doing so is a security risk.
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik Nordström
> > Squid Hacker
Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 05:37:49 MDT