Squid Proxy Server 3.1 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – configuring Squid to use SASL authentication

To configure the SASL authenticator, we need to create a file named basic_sasl_auth.conf with the following content:

pwcheck_method:sasldb

1. Move this file to the /usr/lib/sasl2/ directory.
2. Once we have placed the configuration file in the appropriate directory, we can add the following line in our configuration file to ensure the use of SASL authentication:

   auth_param basic program /opt/squid/libexec/basic_sasl_auth

This command will configure Squid to use the basic_sasl_auth program as an SASL authentication helper.

Note

The basic_sasl_auth requires the Cyrus SASL library (http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/).

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