How to add a new Squid proxy account?

written by Admin

Posted on 2013-08-26

Problem

I have a Squid proxy running on a linux box and I want to add another user.

On Squid 2 type:

# htpasswd /path/to/passwd username

On Squid 3 type:

# htdigest /path/to/passwd proxy username

P.S. You will be asked for the password twice.
Use -c to create the file for the first user.

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