it shouldn't be hard to write up some code to authenticate basic users off a cleartext password file. After all, the basic auth password is transmitted in cleartext; you just need to base 64 decode things.. adrian 2008/7/30 Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx>: > * Karandeep Malik <karandeepmalik@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt >> <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Right now I'm using: >> > >> > auth_param digest program /usr/lib/squid/digest_pw_auth /etc/squid/wlan-proxyauth.digest >> > >> > with /etc/squid/wlan-proxyauth.digest containing: >> > >> > user:password >> > >> > Can I, in a simple fashion, switch to auth_param basic with the same >> > (or easily modified) /etc/squid/wlan-proxyauth.digest file? >> > >> > How? > >> Although I am not pretty sure but I think that may work if you specify >> ncsa_auth as authentication for basic and use the same realm that you >> had specified while creating the wlan-proxyauth.digest file. > > No, doesn't work at all. > > -- > Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx > Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 > Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 > IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to snickebo@xxxxxxxxxx > >
