ext_sql_session_acl8

Usage

ext_sql_session_acl [options]

Overview

Validates an HTTP requests access authorization with a session database.

Taking an identity token to be validated (as determined by the external_acl_type format) it returns a username or tag associated with the identity token passed in.

Common forms of identifiers are IP address, EUI (MAC) address, passwords, or UUID tokens.

This program uses Squid concurrency support.

Options

--dsn: Database DSN. Default "DBI:mysql:database=squid"

--user: Database User

--password: Database password

--table: Database table. Default "passwd".

--uidcol: Unique Session Identifier column. Default "id".

--usercol: External ACL user= result column.

--tagcol: External ACL tag= result column.

--cond: Condition, defaults to enabled=1. Specify 1 or "" for no condition

--persist: Keep a persistent database connection open between queries.

--debug: Write debug info to stderr.

Questions

Questions on the usage of this program can be sent to the Squid Users mailing list <[email protected]>

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

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Author

This program and documentation was written by Amos Jeffries <[email protected]>

Based on original work in DB_auth by Henrik Nordstrom <[email protected]> With assistance of Nishant Sharma <[email protected]>

Copyright

 * Copyright (C) 1996-2026 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
 *
 * Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
 * contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
 * Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
 Copyright (C) 2012 Amos Jeffries <[email protected]>
 This program is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the
 terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your opinion) any
 later version.

Reporting bugs

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Report bugs or bug fixes using https://bugs.squid-cache.org/

Report serious security bugs to Squid Bugs <[email protected]>

Report ideas for new improvements to the Squid Developers mailing list <[email protected]>

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