Hello again Amos, Today I made a (ugly) patch for squid 3.2.13, who changes the credentialsttl behaviour With auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute the user must replay his ident (of course if the negotiation is the second, BASIC). Better - for me - ! The digest (first identification) is proposed as new choice. Of course if I disable the digest - so only with basic - the pop-pup will comes again every minutes. I'm not a C++ expert, and I think there are some bad things, but it works pretty good I thing a better way should be : add an option, something like auth_param basic credentialsttldisconnect The "trick" is: src/auth/UserRequest.h: CRED_BANNED = -3 A new case in src/auth/UserRequest.cc case Auth::CRED_BANNED: *auth_user_request = NULL return AUTH_ACL_CHALLENGE; For basic src/auth/basic/UserRequest.cc case Auth::Ok: if (user()->expiretime + static_cast<Auth::Basic::Config*>(Auth::Config::Find("basic"))->credentialsTTL <= squid_curtime){ // Avoid infinit loop // user()->expiretime = current_time.tv_sec; return Auth::CRED_BANNED; } return Auth::CRED_VALID; I hope I forgot nothing I have just one problem for the moment, sometimes the ident banner appear twice I guess there is a problem about user()->expiretime = current_time.tv_sec place when the user is beyond two minutes without browsing the timer is expired again, I will investigate ... Thank Fred