Ive volunteered to setup one machine with 4 logins + content filtering/time based ACL for the 2 children to replace ( and improve on ) my sisters' dying winXP machine. I want to use basic authentication ( less work for me and i think) and none are particularly computer literate to mess around at all ( well -yet) OS = gentoo linux ive compiled squid Squid Version 2.6.STABLE18 with configure options: '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=getpwnam' bits of my squid conf hepworth ~ # grep ^[A-Za-z] /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf auth_param basic program /usr/local/squid/libexec/getpwname_auth /etc/passwd auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours auth_param basic casesensitive off acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl passwd proxy_auth http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow passwd http_access deny all icp_access allow all http_port 3128 logformat squid %tl %Ss/%03Hs %rm %ru %ul %mt access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid but the proxy wont let me through when i enter he username and unix login password. hepworth ~ # tail -n 3 /var/log/squid/access.log 16/Mar/2008:12:08:44 +0000 TCP_DENIED/407 GET http://en-us.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official andrew text/html 16/Mar/2008:12:08:57 +0000 TCP_DENIED/407 GET http://en-us.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official andrew text/html 16/Mar/2008:12:09:00 +0000 TCP_DENIED/407 GET http://en-us.start2.mozilla.com/favicon.ico - text/html hepworth ~ #
