How many characters is the encrypted password fields in your password file? Should be 13 characters each.
If you find that the password column contains longer fields and $ and other strange characters then you forgot to tell htpasswd to use the crypt() algorithm when hashing the password. Regards Henrik Lukas Fof wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have configured squid 2.5 to prompt for the name and password. > But after 3 logons i get the error "connection refused". > > I have created a passwd file with htpasswd and customized the squid.conf as > follows > > auth_param basic program /usr/local/squid/libexec/ncsa_auth >/usr/local/squid/etc/passwd > auth_param basic children 5 > auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server > auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours > > acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED > acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 > > http_access allow password > http_access deny all > > Does anybody know how where i made a mistake? > > Lukas
