Time for action – configuring PAM service
An example /etc/pam.d/ Squid file may look similar to the following:
#%PAM-1.0 auth include password-auth account include password-auth
Once the Squid service is configured in /etc/pam.d/, we need to configure Squid to use the PAM authentication. The following configuration example will allow Squid to authenticate using the PAM database:
auth_param basic program /opt/squid/libexec/basic_pam_auth
For more information on configuring basic_pam_auth, refer to the basic_pam_auth man page.
What just happened?
We learned to configure PAM and to use the basic_pam_auth Squid helper for authentication.
MSNT authentication
The MSNT Basic authentication helper provides a way to authenticate against NT domain controllers ...
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