Re: [squid-users] Re: squid kerberos authenticators spamming AD and locking out users

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:23:32PM +0000, Markus Moeller wrote:
>
> I don't think this has to do with squid and Kerberos.
>

Reasonably sure it does - for a start the machine that AD says is
causing the errors is one of the proxy servers and if we restart squid
on that particular machine the problem stops.

> This is a Windows
> client only issue. Usually the user should be prompted by Windows to
> update the password. If the user does not update the password the client
> won't get a Kerberos ticket and will fallback to NTLM if that also doesn't
> work it won't send anything to squid to authenticate.
>

That scenario does not match what we are observing, the user has changed
their password, they are able to (while the account is not locked out)
browse the web and access other internal resources. Our squid servers
don't do NTLM.

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