basic_db_auth - Database auth helper for Squid
basic_db_auth [options]
User Contributed Perl Documentation BASIC_DB_AUTH(8)
NAME
basic_db_auth - Database auth helper for Squid
SYNOPSIS
basic_db_auth [options]
DESCRIPTION
This program verifies username & password to a database
OPTIONS
--debug Write debug info to stderr.
--dsn Database DSN. Default "DBI:mysql:database=squid"
--user Database User
--password Database password
--table Database table. Default "passwd".
--usercol Username column. Default "user".
--passwdcol Password column. Default "password".
--cond Condition, defaults to enabled=1. Specify 1 or "" for no
condition If you use --joomla flag, this condition will be
changed to block=0
--plaintext Database contains plain-text passwords
--md5 Database contains unsalted MD5 passwords
--sha1 Database contains unsalted SHA1 passwords
--salt Selects the correct salt to evaluate passwords
--persist Keep a persistent database connection open between queries.
--joomla Tells helper that user database is Joomla DB. So their
unusual salt hashing is understood.
AUTHOR
This program was written by Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik@henriknordstrom.net> and Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
<dlucio@okay.com.mx>
This manual was written by Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
COPYRIGHT
* Copyright (C) 1996-2021 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
*
* Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
* contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
* Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
Copyright (C) 2007 Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Copyright (C) 2010 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz <dlucio@okay.com.mx>
(Joomla support) This program is free software. You may redistribute
copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
2, or (at your opinion) any later version.
QUESTIONS
Questions on the usage of this program can be sent to the Squid Users
mailing list <squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org>
REPORTING BUGS
Bug reports need to be made in English. See
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/BugReporting for details of what
you need to include with your bug report.
Report bugs or bug fixes using http://bugs.squid-cache.org/
Report serious security bugs to Squid Bugs
<squid-bugs@lists.squid-cache.org>
Report ideas for new improvements to the Squid Developers mailing list
<squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org>
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | web/proxy/squid |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
squid (8), GPL (7),
The Squid FAQ wiki http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
The Squid Configuration Manual http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://www.squid-
cache.org/Versions/v4/squid-4.15.tar.xz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.squid-cache.org/.
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