Re: [squid-users] Authentification against a NDS

Thanks a lot!
But what about pam modules like pam_ncp_auth or pam_nw_auth ?
Is someone already used it?

Best Regards
Nicolas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerben Welter" <gerben@brekelmans.com>
To: "Nicolas MATHEY" <nmathey@ingetic.com>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Authentification against a NDS

> At 12:16 6/10/2002 +0200, Nicolas MATHEY wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I would like to authenticate squid's user against a NDS server. So I
tried
> >to use PAM authentification program, with a specified module (not ldap),
> >but it didn't work.
> >Is somebody could explain me which module i must use, and about the
> >different paramaters, because i'm a big newbie in PAM authentification.
>
> If you want to do real NDS authentication not authentication using LDAP,
> you need NDS Authentication Services from Novell. Authentication Services
> provides pam modules and agents/nlms for Novell. Look here for the info:
>
> http://www.novell.com/products/ndsas/
>
> I'm using Authentication Sevices at home with Squid and it works well. But
> the the facts that the user has to type in his/her credentials every time
a
> new browser is started (atleast with MS Internet Explorer), refrains me
> from using it in a production environment. This is due a shortcoming in IE
> and not Squid.
>
> This is why we still use Novell Bordermanager with transparent
> authentication (Client Trust program) at work.
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a Squid solution with ident, because
> Bordermanager is giving us some problems with it's cache volumes.
>
> Grtz Gerben.
>
Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 04:20:50 MDT