In article <[🔎] 4120001141643810609@free.net.nz>, plutoplanet <plutoplanet@free.net.nz> wrote: >proxy squid[1284]: WARNING: authenticator #1 (FD 1) exited > >The relevent lines in my squid.conf are as follows > >authenticate_program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/shadow >acl trusted proxy_auth REQUIRED >http_access allow proxy_auth The squid process doesn't run as root, but rather as user 'squid'. So it can't read the shadow file. Mike.