RE: [squid-users] Squid Authentication utilising user group defin itions in a separate file

Yes you can use multiple files with different users in the with one login
file.
Check out my acl list. http://members.lycos.co.uk/njadmin/
You can even change what they have access to per group.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Baptista [mailto:glenn@nextgenautomation.biz]
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:55 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Squid Authentication utilising user
> group definitions in a separate file
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I realise that user authentication in squid is done via an external
> authentication program (e.g. NCSA module) with the
> appropriate password
> file. Administratively it is preferable to write Authentication ACLs
> using Groups rather than User Names. Hence grouping ACLs are defined
> that enumerate users within a group. Each time a new user is added,
> besides the passwd file, even the squid.conf file has to be
> modified to
> add the user to the required group ACL.
>
> Instead of each time modifying the squid.conf file, is it possible to
> utilise another file (e.g. group.conf) where we may define ACLs that
> assign users to groups, while maintaining the squid.conf file
> constant,
> and including the group.conf into squid.conf using some sort of an
> include statement?
>
> I ask this question because I would like to modify the users
> automatically through a program, and would prefer to
> autogenerate only a
> small file, rather than the complete squid.conf where many
> options are
> unlikely to be changed over time.
>
> Also is it possible to add the user group(s) directly to the
> /squid/etc/passwd file that is used by the NCSA module or is
> there some
> other authentication module that takes care of user groups?
> I am using
> RedHat Linux 7.3 and 9.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Glenn
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 01 2004 - 07:07:06 MST