[KLUG Members] Squid and ntlm_auth

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 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 basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth \
> --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic

Because there are two methods of authentication: NTLM & BASIC.  Browsers that 
do not support NTLM (i.e. the browser isn't IE) will be allowed to go down 
level and authenticate via BASIC with is a standard part of HTTP.