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Enabling user authentication in Squid

Enabling user authentication in Squid - Linux Tutorial

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Enabling user authentication in Squid

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- You don't want just anyone to be able to connect to your proxy server. Stay tuned to learn how to enable Authentication in Squid. - [Narrator] You are watching ITPro TV. (gentle music) (graphics swooshing) - Hi there and welcome back for another episode of LPIC-2 content. In our last couple episodes we worked with Squid and we're going to continue to do so in this episode. Can you give us sort of an overview of what we're going to be talking about? - Sure, well, obviously authentication is the topic of the day. We're going to learn about the different types of authentication that Squid supports. We'll see how to enable it, get it to require a username and a password for somebody to be able to connect to the proxy. And then lastly, we're going to configure a client to connect up, authenticate and actually pass traffic through our proxy. - Now, what types of authentication does Squid support right out of the box? - I wish there was an easy answer to that, but it varies from distro to…

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