Matthias Dettling wrote: > Hello grolschie, > > as I know %s isn't a variable that is passed to > /usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth, instead it is a variable from that program, > which tells it, that %s must be replaced with the username. > By the way parameters of a shell script can be found in $1, $2, ... > > The name, password pair is passed to the script by the auth_param basic > program command. What you have to do is reading from stdin and pass it > to all of your /usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth commands in the script and then > evaluate the result. > > Reading from stdin, can be done by something like this: > -------------------- > #!/bin/sh > > # reading stdin > INP=`cat` > > # pass stdin to /usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth > DOM1=`echo $INP | /usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth ...` > DOM2=`echo $INP | /usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth ...` > ... > -------------------- > > Now the only thing you have to do is evaluate DOM1, DOM2, ... if one of > it equals to "OK". And depending on this execute echo "OK" or echo "ERR". > > I hope this helps. > > Regards > Matthias Wow! Thanks big time Matthias! :-) So the evaluation should be something like this? if [$DOM1="OK"]; then echo "OK" elif [$DOM2="OK"]; then echi "OK" else echo "ERR" fi I would never had got that " INP=`cat`" and "echo $INP" stuff. I would've feebly attempted something like this: DOM1=`/usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth ...` DOM2=`/usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth ...` ...followed by the above evaluation. Thanks alot for your help. I shall give this a blast tomorrow when I am in front of the box. Kind regards, grolschie