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Kempe
Asked: 2013-07-26 06:17:11 +0800 CST

Squid proxy with ncsa_auth

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I'm trying to setup a squid proxy with ncsa_auth but I cant find ncsa_auth on my system

I installed squid with apt-get install squid

As i understand it it should be installed with squid, anyone know of another way to install it or why it wasn't installed in the first place?

$ dpkg -L squid
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/squid
/usr/share/doc/squid/copyright
/usr/share/doc/squid/README
/usr/share/doc/squid/changelog.Debian.gz
proxy

3 Answers

  1. squid is a "dummy transitional package from squid to squid3". Probably squid3 is already installed in your system, as squid depends on squid3.

    ncsa_auth is located in /usr/lib/squid3/.

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  2. I just had the same problem. In my situation the name of the file is "basic_ncsa_auth", and this simpe difference makes a mess hehe.

    I hope it can help you.

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  3. Best Answer

    You are looking in the wrong package with dpkg -L there. The squid package is a transitional package, which only depends on squid3 which does contain the ncsa_auth program.

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