Re: [squid-users] Howto get squid proxy authentication working on ipchains firewall

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:32:14AM +0200, Manie Esterhuizen wrote:
> I have got this problem. I have setup 2 pc's with 2 network cards each,
> running ipchains firewall. Everything is working fine. Then I installed
> squid on both pc's. Now everyone on the private lan can brows the
> internet using squid.(The 2 linux boxes with ipchains and squid are on 2
> different networks)
>
> The next step was to get squid authentication to work using ncsa_auth
> and htpasswd file.
>
> The moment I enable proxy auth. I see in the access.log file that squid
> is denying access to the internet no matter what site you want to go to.
> This is happening on both boxes.

What error message?

> To test if my config of squid and proxy auth was correct I installed
> squid onto a third linux box with NO ipchains config on it. Setup the
> proxy auth and it worked first time.
>
> So my question is whay is it not working on the ipchains firewall box ?.

Did you check the logs? If it works without ipchains then something must
have been dropped. See the /var/log/kern.log

> P.S. I'm running Debian Linux.

What else. ;)

 Christoph

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