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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, CF wrote:

> Your authenticator is not allowed to die either - it must sit looping
> waiting for input then giving the ERR or YES output, then wait for the
> next input.  I can't remember if squid respawns dead authenticators or
> not.  Also, squid will spawn as many of these authenticators as is in
> the squid config file, so there will be probably 5 running at once by
> default.

IIRC, it doesn't, to ensure bugged authenticators don't cause problems.

Also, I would add people should really not configure squid to resolve
usernames/passwords from SMB sources, unless you're confident your local
wire is secure, since Basic HTTP auth is plain-text equivilent. You're
exposing your SMB passwords quite a bit.

- -- 
David Zanetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  |  (__)  
#include <geek/unix.h>               |  ( oo    Mooooooo 
"Hope.. is a dangerous thing."       |  /(_O ./
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