From: "Jason Corcoran." jason.corcoran@ccitriad.co.uk
Organization: CCI-Triad Ireland.
To: ILUG ilug@linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Handy anti windows tip.
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:11:40 +0000

Our company IT people decided to add a proxy server that needed auth.
and in there (in)finite wisdom went for a windows proxy server and NTLM
auth. Which is closed source so opera etc .. wouldn't play nicely
with it. Found a nice python script that sets up and auth server on your
linux box and then you just point to it and he presto - another linux
bashing obsticle placed by our IT department disapears.

If anyone needs said script
http//\www.geocities.com/rozmanov/ntlm
--
Thanks,
Jason.
__________________________________
Senior Software Engineer.
CCI-Triad Europe,
Longford Ireland.

Email : jason.corcoran@ccitriad.co.uk
Http : http://www.cci-triad.co.uk
Phone : + 353 (0) 43 41297

From: Ronan Waide waider@waider.ie
To: "Jason Corcoran." jason.corcoran@ccitriad.co.uk
Cc: ILUG ilug@linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Handy anti windows tip.
X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1
Organization: poor at best.
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:44:05 +0000

If you prefer perl, there's always
http://www.waider.ie/hacks/workshop/perl/ntlm-proxy.pl

Note that your IT department may be upset at you putting an open proxy
on their network. The office that forced creation of the above
perlscript used the authentication to restrict access to the outside
world, and security folks can get a mite bothered if you circumvent
their security.

Cheers,
Waider. How about this thing I've invented called a "wheel"?
--
waider@waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me.

merde says, "they're polite, well-dressed people who talk about god. what's
scary about that?"

From: "Jason Corcoran." jason.corcoran@ccitriad.co.uk
Organization: CCI-Triad Ireland.
To: Ronan Waide waider@waider.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Handy anti windows tip.
Cc: ILUG ilug@linux.ie
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:09:18 +0000

There's an option in the configuration file to only allow local connections.
So its not an open proxy ( ALLOW_EXTERNAL_CLIENTS ) in the server.cfg

--
Thanks,
Jason.
__________________________________
Senior Software Engineer.
CCI-Triad Europe,
Longford Ireland.

Email : jason.corcoran@ccitriad.co.uk
Http : http://www.cci-triad.co.uk
Phone : + 353 (0) 43 4129

From rick Wed Nov 26 06:02:41 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:02:42 -0800
To: discuss@crossover.codeweavers.com
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Outlook Express?

Quoting Derek Schaible (dschaible@cssiinc.com):

> SPA is a Microsoft animal, so no, none of the above mentioned news
> readers support it.

Apparently, it's some cretinous Redmondian implementation of NT Lanman
(NTLM) authentication over SMTP AUTH. See:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154

If you can find a newsreader supporting libesmtp, you would appear to be
home free. (The Balsa MUA uses that library, but to my knowledge
doesn't do NNTP news.)

(I'm not trying to distract from you point about a need for MSOE. I'm
just addressing other parts of the picture.)

> Also,I agree that IE is very inferior, however it supports something
> no other Linux Web Browser does that I'm aware of: Encrypted
> Authentication to an IIS Webserver using Domain level logins - very
> useful for MS based Intranets.

Sounds like IIS / MS Proxy Server requiring NTLM authentication, eh?
One solution is to find out if the site admin is willing to enable Basic
as an allowed authentication type under the default Web site in IIS.
However, here's a pure-Linux solution -- run NTLM Authentication Proxy
Server on Linux: http://apserver.sourceforge.net/

You might write the author and find out if he knows of a solution for
that demented NNTP thing.

--
Cheers, "Don't use Outlook. Outlook is really just a security
Rick Moen hole with a small e-mail client attached to it."
rick@linuxmafia.com -- Brian Trosko in r.a.sf.w.r-j

From: David Joham
To: discuss@crossover.codeweavers.com
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Outlook Express?
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 07:19:38 -0800

Mozilla supports NTLM authentication as well....
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3990