Squid installation

Standard pre-installation steps

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Installing Squid

Additionally we are adding here Apache utils which we will use to create passwd file.

sudo apt install squid apache2-utils

Creating passwd file

sudo touch /etc/squid/squid_passwd
sudo chmod o+r /etc/squid/squid_passwd

Adding new user

htpasswd /etc/squid/squid_passwd put_your_user_name

You will be prompted to type the password

Updating the config

• In auth_param section

  auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_passwd

• At the bottom of ACL section

  acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED

• At the top of http_access section

  http_access allow ncsa_users

• Change port of needed

  http_port 8888

• Hide original IP

  forwarded_for off

Done

sudo systemctl restart squid.service