Re: [squid-users] per-user authentication and settings (Squid or dg)?

Hi,
Thanks, i was hoping not to have to do that. Do you have a similar setup?
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Robertson" <crobertson@gci.net>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] per-user authentication and settings (Squid or
dg)?

> Dave wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I apologize for the cross post, but i'm not sure which product, squid
>> with proxy and authentication, or dansguardian, with user groups, would
>> be best to assist with the issue i'm about to be faced with.
>> I've got a transparent squid proxy set up with filtering and it is
>> working quite nicely. Now i have need to have user authentication and
>> individual user restrictions. For example, and i'll try to keep this as
>> close to my situation as possible, user1 has no restrictions, can go
>> anywhere. User2 only wants to go to yahoo sites, specifically instant
>> message, mail, and yahoo music. User3 is allowed to play online games and
>> i've got a site list of sites for them. User4 has been bad and has not
>> done his homework, as a result i don't want him to have access to games,
>> messaging, or any other content save another list of sites i approve. My
>> thinking is to assign each of these users a username and an md5 password
>> for digest authentication, yet i don't want to install apache for access
>> to htdigest to pull that off. I've thought about ntlm, but that seems
>> overkill for this situation, more than likely these user requirements
>> will be varied. I'm also not sure if this is something dg would be best
>> at or squid at the proxy level.
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>
> Which ever direction you choose, you'll have to remove the interception
> (also called transparent) nature of the proxy.
>
> http://www.swelltech.com/support/procyonguide/ch08.html
>
> Chris
Received on Wed May 10 2006 - 15:11:07 MDT