RE: squid authentication

From: Chemolli Francesco (USI) <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:14:02 +0200

> Sergio Henrique Oliveira Pereira (EDB) wrote:
>
> > your tip is very nice but I need bypass authentication a
> > userid and not ip address. Like
>
> Define userid in the scope of TCP/IP networking. Not that
> easy as there
> is no such concept in TCP/IP or unauthenticated HTTP. Both are quite
> anonymous with only the IP known.
>
> About your only option is to make use of the ident protocol
> to pass the
> userid to Squid, but this requires a ident service to be installed on
> the client computers, and can easily be forged by a
> knowledgeful person.
>
> Your second option is to make use of NTLM authentication to have IE
> users "transparently" authenticate themselves to the proxy by using a
> ecrypted form ot their Windows login.

Rich prizes to those doing so. We need alphatesters :-)

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