On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Chris Nighswonger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:23 AM, nairb rotsak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am totally confused by this statement?.. as I have 300 people using >> firefox right now.. using Ubuntu 6.06, Samba3, Squid2.. and not a single one >> gets a user/pass prompt? I am not using it as a transparent proxy, it is >> listed in firefox under proxy settings (8080 because it goes to DG first.. >> but I have tested just Squid at 3128 and it works as well).. and I haven't >> touched anything else in firefox > > > I'd be very interested in knowing what is different about your setup. > I have fought this problem for several years now.
I second that and would welcome any configs you'd care to share! :) >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Chris Nighswonger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: matlor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org >> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:48:39 AM >> Subject: Re: [squid-users] SQUID + FIREFOX + ACTIVE DIRECTORY >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:18 AM, matlor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I have configured squid with winbind integrated in the active directory of a >>> windows 2003 domain. >>> If I browse internet trough IE 7 everething is ok, no user and password >>> prompted, because of the common login. While, if I open Firefox (2 or 3 >>> version), it prompts for user and password. >> >> One other note: While FF does support NTLM, it does not do transparent >> auth as IE does. Hence the prompting for username/password. >> Furthermore, due to M$ having a broken implementation of NTLM, FF will >> at times repeatedly prompt ad infinitum. There is an open bug on this >> at Mozilla, (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318253) but >> action on it is understandably slow. You can mess with FF's NTLM >> related settings under 'about:config' to gain some respite. You can >> also run a basic auth that authenticates against NTLM which for some >> reason seems to avoid the multi-prompt issue. Something like: >> >> auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic >> auth_param basic children 2 >> auth_param basic realm somerealm >> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours >> auth_param basic casesensitive off >> >> Regards, >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> >
