Re: [squid-users] md5 + NCSA issue

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, squidrunner team wrote:

>
>>
>> htpasswd -m /usr/lib/squid/etc/passwd user2
>>
>> Now on a client machine proxy for user1 works but
>> not user2.
>
> You can not use MD5 with squid NCSA authentication. If
> you check by command line, you will get ERR as
> response for this.

The ncsa_auth from the squid-3 distribution does support MD5 hashed
passwords. This helper also works fine with Squid-2.5 even if not included
in the Squid-2.5 distribution.

ncsa_auth from Squid-2.5 or earlier only supports the old crypt hash.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 12:10:24 MDT