Re: [squid-users] LDAP authentication

The standard squid_ldap_auth helper do not have a configuration file format.
It expects command line arguments. See it's documentation (distributed as a
man page).

In the documentation you will also find some guidelines on how to integrate
with MSAD.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer, current maintainer of the squid_ldap_auth helper

Ciocanel Andreea wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to authenticate users from a Win 2000 domain,using LDAP.
>
> I installed openldap on the machine,squid is configured with
> --enable-auth="basic" --enable-auth-modules="LDAP"
> (--enable-basic-auth-helpers="LDAP").
>
> I can access Internet without:
>
> acl auth_users proxy_auth REQUIRED
> and
> http_access allow auth_users
> so squid.conf is ok, the only problem is with LDAP authentication.
>
> in squid.conf I have a line:
>
> auth_param basic program /usr/local/squid/libexec/squid_ldap_auth
> /usr/local/squid/etc/squid_ldap_auth.conf (the paths are correct and in
> squid_ldap_auth.conf i set the ldap server and ou and dc ).
>
> If I try to connect to internet the authentication window appears, I see in
> access.log that a user tried to authenticate,but I cannot connect to
> internet....the window is still there,asking for a user and a password.
>
> i'm sure that the password is correct,i tried using only the username,and
> username@domain.com....
>
>
> But still not working,
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Andreea Ciocanel
>
> System engineer
> Siemens VDO Automotive SRL
> Calea Martirilor Nr.1, 1900 Timisoara, Romania
> Tel: +40 (0) 56 308220
> Fax: +40 (0) 56 294440
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 08:46:55 MDT