Re: [squid-users] squid ncsa access denied from other than localhost

Redya Febriyanto wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm new to squid and i'm planning to use it with ncsa authentication
> on Fedora 9.
> I've installed the squid from rpm and it was runing successully with
> default configuration (without any changes). But when i try to change
> the configuration to use ncsa authentication it denied all access from
> other than localhost without even prompting any password to users.
>
> I thought the acl was the cause and i decided to simplify my
> configuration just to make sure that there is no "unwanted acl"
>
> my recent configuration (squid.conf) is:
>
> auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/dor
> auth_param basic children 5
> auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
>
> http_port 3128
> acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
> http_access allow users
> http_access deny all
>
>
> and it denied any access from other than localhost without prompting
> any password, but it prompt for password if accessed from locahost,
> and my user&password is working. Why it always by default deny
> anything from "outside-world"..
> is there any misconfiguration?
>
> FYI i am using squid 3.0.STABLE2
>
> please help me and thx in advance
>
> redya

Squid 3.0 earlier than stable5 had various authentication bugs.

Please upgrade. Preferrably to stable7.

Amos

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Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE3 or 3.0.STABLE7