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Re: Squid, Windows clients, RFC931, oh my.



On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:52, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 1023322862.5138.20.camel@mrlinux>,
> Mark Roach  <mrroach@okmaybe.com> wrote:
> >What you want is NTLM authentication. Unfortunately the current stable
> >version of squid does not have support for it. 
> >I have built a squid 2.5pre5 .deb(binary) package with NTLM support that
> >has been the proxy for ~150 users in my company for a few months now. 
> 
> You do know that the NTLM module is full of buffer overruns and
> sprintf vulnerabilities, and that exploits for it appear to exist?
> Remote root waiting to happen ..

If this entire system was in any way visible from beyond the corporate
firewall, it'd be a worry for me. As it is, it's entirely an internal
matter. The authentication mechanism is, for me, just to make the log
files look prettier.

Regards

Peter. 

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Peter Whysall
peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc
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