January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
14h 47m
English
Content preview from Squid: The Definitive Guide
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Name
auth_param
Synopsis
The auth_param directive controls almost every aspect of Squid’s external user
authentication interface. Squid currently supports three
authentication schemes: Basic, Digest, and NTLM. Basic authentication
support is compiled by default. For the others, you must use the
—enable-auth option with ./configure.
Since the auth_param directive is very complex, I’m presenting it here as a separate directive for each combination of parameters.
Syntax | See the following subsections |
Default | See the following subsections |
Example | See the following subsections |
Related | authenticate_cache_garbage_interval, authenticate_ttl, authenticate_ip_ttl |
auth_param basic program
The command for the HTTP Basic authentication helper. You need to specify the full pathname to the program, plus any command-line options.
Syntax | auth_param basic program |
Default | No default |
Example | auth_param basic program /usr/local/squid/libexec/ncsa_auth /usr/local/squid/etc/ ncsa_passwd |
Related | auth_param basic children, auth_param basic realm, auth_param basic credentialsttl |
auth_param basic children
This is the number of Basic authentication helper processes Squid uses.
Syntax | auth_param basic children count |
Default | auth_param basic children 5 |
Example | auth_param basic children 10 |
Related | auth_param basic program, auth_param basic realm, auth_param basic credentialsttl |
auth_param basic realm
This is the Basic authentication realm Squid sends in 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) responses. User agents typically display ...
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