[squid-users] Authenticate against the squid of my organization

[Amos Jeffries]

On 16/12/2015 9:14 a.m., Amaury Viera Hernández wrote:
> Hello everyone:
> 
> This is my main doubt:
> I'm using an authenticated proxy (squid) in my university but i do not
> have access to change any configuration in that proxy.
> 
> I need to install squid in my local machine and specify in some place
> that this squid will use my user and password of the squid of my
> university (Please, note that I can't make configurations in the main
> proxy)

Squid can authenticate against another proxy using Basic or
Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.

Or it can be configured to do *nothing* with authentication and
transparently pass Proxy-Auth details headers between the upstream proxy
and the client software.

See the cache_peer login= parameter:
 <http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_peer/>


Amos