Re: [squid-users] SQUID + FIREFOX + ACTIVE DIRECTORY

I am totally confused by this statement?.. as I have 300 people using firefox right now.. using Ubuntu 6.06, Samba3, Squid2.. and not a single one gets a user/pass prompt? I am not using it as a transparent proxy, it is listed in firefox under proxy settings (8080 because it goes to DG first.. but I have tested just Squid at 3128 and it works as well).. and I haven't touched anything else in firefox.

----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger_at_foundations.edu>
To: matlor <bfrobu_at_tin.it>
Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:48:39 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] SQUID + FIREFOX + ACTIVE DIRECTORY

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:18 AM, matlor <bfrobu_at_tin.it> wrote:
>
> I have configured squid with winbind integrated in the active directory of a
> windows 2003 domain.
> If I browse internet trough IE 7 everething is ok, no user and password
> prompted, because of the common login. While, if I open Firefox (2 or 3
> version), it prompts for user and password.

One other note: While FF does support NTLM, it does not do transparent
auth as IE does. Hence the prompting for username/password.
Furthermore, due to M$ having a broken implementation of NTLM, FF will
at times repeatedly prompt ad infinitum. There is an open bug on this
at Mozilla, (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318253) but
action on it is understandably slow. You can mess with FF's NTLM
related settings under 'about:config' to gain some respite. You can
also run a basic auth that authenticates against NTLM which for some
reason seems to avoid the multi-prompt issue. Something like:

auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
auth_param basic children 2
auth_param basic realm somerealm
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
auth_param basic casesensitive off

Regards,
Chris

      
Received on Wed Oct 29 2008 - 14:23:36 MDT