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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book

Published in Feb 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849513906

Pages 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Squid Proxy Server 3.1 Beginner's Guide

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About the Author

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Squid

2. Configuring Squid

3. Running Squid

4. Getting Started with Squid's Powerful ACLs and Access Rules

5. Understanding Log Files and Log Formats

6. Managing Squid and Monitoring Traffic

7. Protecting your Squid Proxy Server with Authentication

8. Building a Hierarchy of Squid Caches

9. Squid in Reverse Proxy Mode

10. Squid in Intercept Mode

11. Writing URL Redirectors and Rewriters

12. Troubleshooting Squid

Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Time for action – configuring RADIUS authentication

We can add the following line to our Squid configuration file to use the RADIUS server for authentication:

auth_param basic program /opt/squid/libexec/basic_radius_auth -h radius.example.com -p 1645 -i squid_proxy -w s3cR37 -t 15

In this configuration line, the option -h specifies the RADIUS server to connect to. The option -p identifies which port to use to connect to the RADIUS server. The option -i specifies the unique identifier for identifying the Squid proxy server on the RADIUS server. If option -i is not specified, the authentication helper will use the IP address of the proxy server. The shared secret with the RADIUS server is specified using the -w option. Finally, the option -t specifies the request timeout. The default request timeout is 10 seconds.

In order to avoid specifying a lot of options in the Squid configuration file, we can create a separate configuration file containing connection-related information. Let's say, we are...

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