Once you run the command you need to input username and password: $ /usr/lib/squid/squid_ldap_auth -b dc=domain,dc=com -D cn=squid,ou=is,dc=domain,dc=com -w squid ldapserver user password Matt Alexander <lowbassman@gmail .com> To squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/15/2005 09:45 cc AM Subject Re: Too few authenticator processes are running Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 04:06, Matt Alexander wrote: > >> In the cache.log, we get squid restarting about once a minute: >> >> (squid_ldap_auth): error.c:221: ldap_parse_result: Assertion `r != >> ((void *)0)' failed. >> > > The external authenticator (squid_ldap_auth) has crashed. Try running it > from the command line to find out why it does that. Perhaps something has > changed on the LDAP server - try to look at the queries and replies > through tcpdump/ethereal. > After shutting down squid to isolate the network traffic, I ran the following command: /usr/lib/squid/squid_ldap_auth -b dc=domain,dc=com -D cn=squid,ou=is,dc=domain,dc=com -w squid ldapserver squid_ldap_auth just sits there and tcpdump doesn't show any new connections to the ldapserver. Hitting the Return key prints out "ERR" on the screen and I must "ctrl-c" to get back to my console. Any ideas why squid_ldap_auth is failing to do anything? Thanks, ~M