Hi,
I realise that user authentication in squid is done via an external authentication program (e.g. NCSA module) with the appropriate password file. Administratively it is preferable to write Authentication ACLs using Groups rather than User Names. Hence grouping ACLs are defined that enumerate users within a group. Each time a new user is added, besides the passwd file, even the squid.conf file has to be modified to add the user to the required group ACL.
Instead of each time modifying the squid.conf file, is it possible to utilise another file (e.g. group.conf) where we may define ACLs that assign users to groups, while maintaining the squid.conf file constant, and including the group.conf into squid.conf using some sort of an include statement?
I ask this question because I would like to modify the users automatically through a program, and would prefer to autogenerate only a small file, rather than the complete squid.conf where many options are unlikely to be changed over time.
Also is it possible to add the user group(s) directly to the /squid/etc/passwd file that is used by the NCSA module or is there some other authentication module that takes care of user groups? I am using RedHat Linux 7.3 and 9.
Thanks
Glenn
