Check out the Wiki; I have a working ntlm_auth based squid-2.6 setup documented in ConfigExamples. Adrian On Wed, Nov 01, 2006, P D wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get squid (ver 2.6.STABLE4) setup on a RHEL4 environment. > I'm trying to get the squid setup to act as a transparent proxy, using > NTLM to log active-directory usernames. When I initalise the squid > cache (/usr/sbin/squid -z) everything works ok, but when I get to > starting up the squid program (/usr/sbin/squid) I'm getting a number > of warnings about the basicauthenticator helper.. > > (squid): The basicauthenticator helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help! > squid[7978]: Squid Parent: child process 8112 exited due to signal 6 > squid[7978]: Exiting due to repeated, frequent failures > > my first thought was to check the cache.log and got the following: > > helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 15 'ntlm_auth' processes > helperOpenServers: Starting 15 'ntlm_auth' processes > Usage: (ntlm_auth) [OPTION...] > > which indicates that I've got my squid conf wrong...my squid.conf > looks like this > > auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth > --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp > auth_param ntlm children 15 > auth_param ntlm keep_alive on > auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth > auth_param basic children 15 > auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server > auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours > auth_param basic casesensitive off > > the problem I believe is down to the syntax of my ntlm_auth command. > I tried testing the ntlm_auth program directly (/usr/bin/ntlm_auth) to > see if I could find the problem.. I get the following back: > ./ntlm_auth --helper-protocol > username must be specified! > > I'm not sure what information I have to pass into the "./ntlm_auth > --helper-protocol..." line. > My thoughts were that "--helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp" bit is > wrong, but I'm not sure what to put in... any assistance would be > gratefully appreciated. > > I have the samba side working ok, I have no problems in getting the > groups or user information from AD using "wbinfo" calls.. > > thanks in advance > > PD > > > > > ./ntlm_auth --helper-protocol > username must be specified!
