Re: [webmin-l] External squid-style authentication program ?

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Yes.  There are several that come with Squid.  On a Red Hat system 
they'll be in /usr/lib/squid.  There are quite a few others on the web 
in varying states of quality.  Writing ones own is not difficult, as 
you've seen.

BTW-the standard way to solve your problem is to put Perl into 
unbuffered mode at the start of the code (but a flush works fine too). 
You can do that with:

$|=1;

Somewhere early in the file.  When things get complicated, it's nice to 
not have to think about flushing after every result.

The Squid FAQ has a lot of good information about authenticators.

Dave Isaacs wrote:
> Solved my own problem.  I just needed to add a flush command after the 
> print.
>  
> Follow-up question: Are there any standard external authentication in 
> existence, to support (for example) LDAP or kerberos authentication?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Dave I
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* web...@li...
>     [mailto:web...@li...] *On Behalf Of
>     *Dave Isaacs
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:53 AM
>     *To:* 'web...@li...'
>     *Subject:* [webmin-l] External squid-style authentication program ?
> 
>     I am experimenting with the Webmin Authenticate feature "External
>     squid-style authentication program" that allows you to use an
>     external application to authenticate username/password login. 
>     Unfortunately, I am failing at the most simple test.
>      
>     Just to try it out, I created an auth.pl script that does nothing
>     except read from STDIN and unconditionally prints out "OK\n" for
>     each line of input.
>      
>     #!/usr/bin/perl
>     while (<STDIN>) {
>             print "OK\n";
>     }
>     I then specified this script in the "External squid-style
>     authentication program" setting on the Authentication page. This
>     should, if I am understanding this correctly, successfully
>     authenticate any Webmin use who has "External authentication
>     program" specified in their user access rights.
>      
>     But it is not working.  When trying to log in with an externally
>     authenticated user, I don't get success or failure.  What happens is
>     that the browser just spins and there is never a response. 
>      
>     Any ideas as to what the problem is?
>      
>     The Webmin version is 1.240 running on Red hat EL3 Workstation)
>      
>     Thanks
>      
>     Dave Isaacs
>      
>