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Manual Reference Pages  - ncsa_auth (8)

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ncsa_auth - NCSA httpd-style password file authentication helper for Squid

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ncsa_auth passwdfile 

ncsa_auth allows Squid to read and authenticate user and password information from an NCSA httpd-style password file when using basic HTTP authentication.

The only parameter is the password file. It must have permissions to be read by the user that Squid is running as. By default this user is proxy. This can be changed using the cache_effective_user directive in the squid.conf file.

This password file can be manipulated using htpasswd.

Only specify the password file name.

ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid.pass

ncsa_auth must have access to the password file to be executed.

htpasswd(1), squid(8)

Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>

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