Thanks Amos, Got that fixed no errors but it does not popup the username and password box now..... Sigh did not think there will be such big difference between the Squid 2 & 3, did not had this issues with previous versions..... Hope you can help. Thanks Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 26 January 2012 13:30 To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problem with auth on Squid 3 On 27/01/2012 12:08 a.m., Andrew Burger wrote: > HI Amos, > > Thanks for the answer. > > I did had the following in auth_param program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_user but then removed it as well as I got the same error. > > So im not so sure what els I wants from me. auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_user Needs to be somewhere *above* the set of acl definitions. If you get errors about the auth helper setting itself up that is different and at least its progress. Amos