Squid configuration examples (ctd)

Proxy authentication - basic authentication example

; configure the basic authentication helper
auth_param basic program /home/squid/run/bin/ncsa_auth /home/squid/run/etc/passwd
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours

; Create an ACL for authenticating users
acl basicusers proxy_auth REQUIRED

; Allow authenticated users only
http_access allow all basicusers

; allow all users to fetch misses
; note that you can't authenticate a second time - and only users that pass
; http_access will be able to get to miss_access
miss_access allow all