[squid-users] Squid-cache authentication is not working

[Alex Rousskov]

On 2023-09-09 09:09, Jason Long wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed the Squid-cache on Debian 12, then I installed the Apache utils:
> 
> $ sudo apt install apache2-utils
> 
> After it, I did the following steps:
> 
> $ sudo touch /etc/squid/passwd
> $ sudo chown proxy /etc/squid/passwd
> 
> Then:
> 
> $ sudo htpasswd /etc/squid/passwd jason
> 
> After it, I opened the "/etc/squid/squid.conf" file and add the following lines to it:
> 
> auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwd
> auth_param basic children 5
> auth_param basic realm Squid Basic Authentication
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
> acl auth_users proxy_auth REQUIRED
> http_access allow auth_users
> http_access deny all
> 
> 
> Finally:
> $ sudo systemctl restart squid
> 
> But, on the client machine, I can visit any website without the username and password.
> Which part of the configuration is wrong?


Many things could go wrong, but I would start from the beginning: 
Perhaps the client (browser) is not configured to use the proxy? Do you 
see client transactions reflected in Squid access.log? Anything in Squid 
cache.log?

HTH,

Alex.