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 on Windows or Samba.