Re: Some questions about user configuration

zwjin@nantian.com.cn wrote:
>
> The questions are:
>
> Can squid give user the right to change his or her password by own?

All authentication and password handling is outside Squid. To implement
password changing you would implement a CGI program changing the
password in the system Squid is interfaced to (NCSA password files is
only one of the endless possibilities).

> Can squid set differnt user priviledge levels which make user can get
> different responding speed from the proxy?

Yes, at least partially, by defining ACLs that matches the different
user groups you can say that a certain group of users is limited (see
delay_pools).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker