Hello,
I'm looking for a proxy feature devising a way that, transparently with respect of end user intervention, performs the basic http authetication on behalf of the user. The authentication would be done utilizing credentials automatically choosen upon the IP address of the user client. A fundamental prerequisite of the solution is that the credentials would be the same as the username/password pair of the Windows NT login.
The definite purpose is avoiding the user filling his/her own credentials, when requested to do so through the authentication login window presented by the web server.
To better motivate my need, please consider that the web application is not conveying sensitive data whatever, so the security functionality involved inside the authentication mechanism itself can be safely disregarded. On the other, hand the restrict access configuration of the web server is still desidered to implement a personalized working environment for the the specific user.
So my question: is Squid, or any other proxy implementation/product to your knowledge, that could program such mechanism?
Thank you for any hints!
-- Marco