[KLUG Members] Squid and ntlm_auth

[Komal]

Hi

I was reading Samba 3 by Example and I came across chapter discussing how to
integrate Squid with Samba with ntlm_auth. In the particular article the
author have used following configuration for Squid auth. I want to why there
is need for two set of auth in the squid.conf file?

auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth \
--helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
auth_param ntlm children 5
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth \
--helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
acl AuthorizedUsers proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow all AuthorizedUsers

Thank you

Regards,

Komal