Re: [squid-users] auth_param username rewrite

On 17/01/2005, at 2:09 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Scott wrote:
>
>> My other alternative theory would be to create some sort of third
>> party login to allow users to auth and therefore setting the user to
>> user@domain before passing to the squid server..
>
> This is what I proposed doing with one Squid instance per group of
> users.

Sorry Henrik, should have elaborated a little... I have over 1000
customer sites.. that would be a little ugly to set up and very ugly to
maintain.

>
>> The only problem with this would be that I have no idea how to get
>> such a page to force proxy headers to a remote client to be used on
>> the squid server..
>
> It must be another proxy (such as Squid) and it must support
> forwarding of the user credentials to another proxy but with a
> modified username (which Squid does btw.. see the login= cache_peer
> option).

I'll take a look at this me thinks

> Regards
> Henrik
>

Thanks once again :)

Scott

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