From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: pam_auth need a /etc/pam.d/squid ( inexistent in RPM package )to authenticate local users Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. - install squid 2 - configure to authenticate local users in order to allow access /etc/squid/squid.conf: authenticate_program /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth acl authenticated proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow authenticated http_access deny all 3 - try open any site Additional info: add the file /etc/pam.d/squid with this content: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so