[Devil-linux-develop] squid authorization modules (was Re: add setserial)

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> In that sense, all the stuff I've been doing in 1.1 are really bug
> fixes.  I can rationalize too, check this out:   :-)
> 
> It started out with the squid authorization modules not working.
> (because they were not being compiled).  Then I tried the yp_auth module
> and it didn't run because it needed ypbind to be running.  So I added
> ypbind, but it wouldn't compile without yp-tools, so I added it.  Then
> ypbind didn't run because it needed the RPC portmapper.  So I added the
> portmapper, but it wouldn't compile because it needed tcp_wrappers, so I
> added it ...  (talk about dependency hell! :)
> 
> You see, all one big BUG FIX!!!    ;-)
> (and the most amazing thing is it even works!)
> Feel free to back port the changes to 1.0!  (or not :)
> 
> BTW, while I was adding all the NIS crap, I also added ypserv so it's
> all there, also a bug fix since we don't want only part of the yp crap.
> 
> And I also wrote some enhancements to yp_auth.c, now a patch on DL.
> (I'll spare you the details unless you really want to hear about it)
> Maybe I should submit that patch to the squid people ...

Isn't there a patch or config option where you could disable the
nis support in squid's authorization module? I would not really
want to run a bloated squid on a caching firewall.

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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