The use of Samba in that article is just to get a clean integration of using the same password on the desktop and for browsing. It's purely optional. Regards Henrik On fre, 2008-05-30 at 06:13 -0700, Squidly wrote: > Is running samba the only way for squid not to use clear text passwords? > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Henrik Nordstrom > <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/LdapBackedDigestAuthentication > > > > On tor, 2008-05-29 at 20:42 -0700, Squidly wrote: > >> Is there a good guide detailing how to set this digest up with openLdap? > >> > >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Henrik Nordstrom > >> <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On tor, 2008-05-29 at 16:21 -0700, Squidly wrote: > >> >> I am hoping there is a way to encrypt user name and password as they > >> >> are are passed from the browser to my debian squid box. I have looked > >> >> around the web and just keep getting more confused. I found some > >> >> reference to digest_ldap_auth but that does not exist in my lib and > >> >> seems to be for windowz. Does someone know a good reference? > >> > > >> > > >> > digest_ldap_auth is a standard digest helper shipped with Squid since > >> > some years back.. It's not Windows related. > >> > > >> > The use of digest requires access to either plaintext passwords or > >> > specifically digest hashed password hashes in the LDAP directory. It can > >> > not use simple LDAP authentication like squid_ldap_auth. > >> > > >> > Regards > >> > Henrik > >> > > >
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