Squid-2.5 features (ctd)

Authentication system / Authentication helper changes

Robert/Kinkie/Henrik have nearly rewritten the system
Authentication helpers are now broken up into modules
Squid-2.5 supports both basic and digest request authentication
Squid-2.5 comes with plugins for
NCSA htpasswd-style files
getpwnam (unix)
YP/NIS
A few Windows-authentication (NTLM, SMB, multi-domain-NTLM)
PAM
LDAP