Re: Squid-2.0.RELEASE: cachemgr and proxy_auth [patch]

Duane Wessels wrote:

> I don't understand this either. Must be because I don't use proxy_auth.
>
> If I put
> http_access allow manager mgr_hosts
>
> early in my access list, why would proxy_auth deny the request?

It won't. But if you are using proxy_auth then you most likely want to
use it on all requests without having to bother with IP based access
rules to the manager interface.

> >I think the access control sheme used in cachemgr should be
> >replaced by proxy_auth.

> Then how can you have different passwords for different cache manager
> functions?

By allowing different authenticated users to perform different
operations. Each user has it's own password.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:54 MDT