[squid-users] passwd problem

[Amos Jeffries]

On 12/05/18 00:30, Alex Gutiérrez Martínez wrote:
> Hello community, yesterday i noticed that one of my users is using a
> private squid to avoid the tedious problem of typing the password every
> time he starts session in his browser. The problem is that the squid
> suddenly started to return in plain text the username and password.
> Therefore, that information is reflected in my proxy log.
> 
> The directive that the user used is:
> 
> "cache_peer proxy.mynetwork.cu parent 3229 0 no-query no-digest default
> login = user1: passwd1"

Ensure that there are no whitespace in that login string. It should just be:
 login=user1:passwd1

Also ensure that the user1 and passwd1 are correct values accepted by
the peer for Basic auth.

Amos