RE: [squid-users] ncsa_auth problem

Thank you very much, that worked. Upgraded to 2.5 stable 10 and used
htpasswd, works like a charm. Can anyone recommend a good SquidNT user
monitoring tool? (How long a user is online, where they have been, that kind
of stuff.)

Thanks again

-----Original Message-----
From: Serassio Guido [mailto:guido.serassio@acmeconsulting.it]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:42 PM
To: Shortridge, Mark; (squid-users@squid-cache.org)
Subject: Re: [squid-users] ncsa_auth problem

Hi,

At 17.01 13/06/2005, Shortridge, Mark wrote:

>I have SquidNT (squid/2.5.STABLE3-NT-CVS) installed on a Windows 2003
>server. It works fine with no authentication.

You are lucky: STABLE3 is very old, and there are some bugs that can make
this Squid build crash on Windows 2003. Please upgrade to STABLE9 or the
latest STABLE10.

>I want to use the
>ncsa_auth.exe authentication helper that came with squid, but have not been
>successful. I can see in the cache.log that squid starts the ncsa_auth
>helper, I'm not sure if I am writing the password file correctly.
>
>
>For the password file, I have a file called password.txt, and I have a
>username and a password separated by a colon: username:password. Is this
>correct?
> test:test
> shortma1:5t43tv

No, you must create the passwd file with htpasswd or similar.
You can find a Window build of NCSA tools in the Squid for Windows download
page.
http://www.acmeconsulting.it/SquidNT.html

>Conf.cmd
>
>echo auth_param basic program D:/Squid/libexec/ncsa_auth.exe
>D:/Squid/pwd/password.txt >> %CONFFILE%

Correct.

You can run ncsa_auth.exe from Windows command line and check if works.

Regards

Guido

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