Re: [squid-users] maybe OT chpasswd

Squid requeries the helper on any invalid password, so there should
be no need for a very low TTL only because of password changes.

The NCSA auth helper rereads the password file when the file has been
modified.

Regards
Henrik

On Saturday 16 February 2002 05.36, DC wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks a lot for the mail. I solved the problem and
> developed a webmodule too for it. The problem was that
> the auth ttl was set to 36000 so it didn't check the
> .htpasswd file for that time period. I deduced this by
> looking at access time of .htpasswd
> I have reduced this ttl to 1.
> Thanks again and bye.
> -Shant
>
> --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com> wrote:
> > Can the user your web server runs chpasswd as write
> > to the .htpasswd
> > file?
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik Nordström
> > Squid Developer
> >
> > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 14.18, DC wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > i have installed chpasswd-1.9 and tried to change
> > > password with it for squid. It does look into my
> > > /etc/.htpasswd file and verfies the password. It
> >
> > also
> >
> > > takes the new password and says that the password
> >
> > is
> >
> > > changed. But the next time i logon with new
> >
> > password
> >
> > > ti does not take the new password but takes old
> >
> > one. i
> >
> > > found that the file /etc/.htpasswd is just
> >
> > accessed
> >
> > > but not modified at all. Where can it be putting
> >
> > the
> >
> > > passwords?
> > > Thanks a lot and eagerly waiting for the reply.
> > > Thanks and bye.
> > > -Shant
> > >
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