Re: [squid-users] ntlm_auth with password prompt

Hi,

At 00.59 12/09/2006, Kinkie wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 21:07 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:
> > Hi Jimmy,
> >
> > At 20.47 06/09/2006, Jimmy Jonsson wrote:
> > >I have a little odd question. One of my customers who uses Squid wants the
> > >user to be prompted for a password and then let ntlm_auth authenticate the
> > >against Active Directory. Is there a way to tell ntlm_auth to
> always prompt
> > >the user for password ?
> >
> > I think no.
> >
> > NTLM authentication is some time called "transparent
> authentication" .... :-)
> >
> > Internet Explorer prompts the user for authentication only when the
> > "transparent authentication" fails.
>
>It may be under control by the "security zones" concept. You can try
>setting MSIE not to automatically authenticate against servers in the
>"intranet" zone..

Sure, good suggestion.
A similar thing can also be done with Firefox, see about:cofig,
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Tue Sep 12 2006 - 07:56:06 MDT