This is perhaps the easiest authentication helper to configure in Squid, but also the most insecure. The biggest problem with Basic is it transmits username and password in clear text, hence very susceptible to network sniffing or man in the middle type attacks. The only reason I
Ultimately you want to Kerberos authentication with your Squid proxy, but before we got there we had basic. And here is how to configure it;
First thing that requires out magic touch is Squid
