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Articles dealing with the Squid web cache/proxy

Squid 

Writing Squid authenticators

An authenticator that you can use in Squid is pretty simple. So if you find you need to use an

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Squid 

Nagios plugin for checking Squid

I once needed a way to make sure our Squid proxy cluster operates correctly. So I wrote a rather simple

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Squid 

Squid log reader

Reading Squid’s log files can be hard for us humans. This Perl script will help you decipher them. Note that

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Squid 

Using LDAP to authenticate Squid proxy users

This article is meant to help set up LDAP authentication with a Squid proxy. Often administrators are using Squid as

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Squid 

How to keep your users from bypassing your proxy

Many administrators do not seem to recognize the true purpose of a proxy. That is to make sure nothing but

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Squid 

How Squid ACLs work

For less experienced Squid administrators the concept of ACLs can be confusing at first. But they offer a great way

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Readers’ comments

  • fred 2021-02-25 at 17:51 on Creating a TLS encryption key and certificateHi I am discovering this site for security https://securityheaders.com. I have added things to the .conf file for better results
  • John 2021-02-23 at 13:43 on ISPmail tutorialsA couple of typos on the page: Your mail users can either install a comfortable IMAP client like Thunderbird or
  • Tim Small 2021-02-19 at 15:11 on Monitoring and backuprestic does not (yet) feature compression (restic bug #21 tracks progress on this feature). Yet another backup software package which
  • André 2021-02-18 at 14:35 on Webmail using RoundcubeHallo, ich hab nach der Anleitung alles perfekt hinbekommen aber hätte gerne roundcube in der Version 1.4.11. wie führe ich
  • Bryce J 2021-02-18 at 01:25 on Success storiesHi Christoph I just wanted to say that I have never before come across such a comprehensive and thorough tutorial.
  • yoann 2021-02-16 at 18:44 on Setting up DovecotHello, i have an error when im trying to send an email : Feb 16 19:41:27 mail postfix/smtps/smtpd[10263]: warning: SASL
  • Tim Small 2021-02-15 at 17:13 on Creating a TLS encryption key and certificateMight be worth signposting the "Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator" as a good source for SSL configuration snippets? It supports all
  • Max 2021-02-14 at 20:25 on Filtering out spam with rspamdWenn E-Mails im Junk-Ordner liegen und diese gelöscht werden (direkt im Junk-Ordner) dann wird das Ham Script ausgeführt. Gibt es
  • Hector 2021-02-14 at 14:41 on Firewalling and brute force mitigationFor that last post this is what I meant to add. [DEFAULT] banaction = nftables-multiport chain = input [apache-auth] enabled
  • Hector 2021-02-14 at 14:40 on Firewalling and brute force mitigationShould be in "/etc/fail2ban/jail.d/jail.local" instead of "/etc/fail2ban/jail.local"? Reason I ask is because on top of that "/etc/fail2ban/jail.local" file there is
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