[Samba] authenticating to an NTLM proxy from a Linux http cli ent

[Parsons, Drew]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, 1 February 2004 9:14 PM
> > 
> > I understand that samba3 is able to provide NTLM 
> authentication, but I can't
> > see how it could be set up to pass on that authentication 
> to the proxy
> > server. Samba won't act as an in-between "transparent 
> proxy" that way, will it?
> > 
> 
> > Is there a solution I've missed? Is there any way samba can 
> be leveraged to
> > connect to the proxy server?  Or if it really Can't Be 
> Done, could someone
> > kindly say so and put me out of my misery?
> 
> Samba has an NTLMSSP client and server implementation, that 
> can be used
> by external programs.  The interface is currently not the 
> best, but you
> can call ntlm_auth over stdio to do the job.  (This presumes 
> you wish to
> modify the source to wget or apt-get).
> 
> This is in Samba 3.0.2, of which we just released rc2.
> 


It'd be nice to have the time to hack all the various unix clients to
support NTLM authenthication.

But wanting to just get the job done, I've found another solution: ntlmaps
(NTLM authentication proxy server).  It's home page is
http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/, but I packaged it up for Debian
(http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ntlmaps).
It lets me proxy for wget and apt-get.

Thanks anyway,

Drew Parsons
dparsons at emerall.com


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