Re: Access Authentication

Well Alp,

        There is a little option in squid called proxy_auth, investigate
it and work out if it is a viable option.

Seeya,

Dave.

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Queensland University of Technology
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Alp wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> I would be most grateful if anyone can help me in the following scenario:
>
> We want to authenticate users when they want to use our proxy. But
> unfortunately our proxy server is on another continent, and our users in
> another. We want to restrict access to all but the authenticated users. The
> problem here is that the user's internet connection is through an ISP that
> uses Dynamic IPS. Therefore each time the uses connects to internet, he
> will have a different address. Suppose the isp is: users.bigcity.net (runs
> on Unix SYSTEM V) and the user is john (john@users.bigcity.net). Therefore
> his UNIX account is john. So when john logs on to his ISP, he will either
> get a Dynamic IP like 204.45.32.117 or FQDN like ppp43.users.bigcity.net.
> So it would be impossible to authenticate him as any of these in ACL since
> they are not fixed. What can we do to authenticate him as user "john" at
> "users.bigcity.net"? We are using Squid 1.1.20, Linux 2.0.30 on a PPro 200
> Mhz.
>
> Sincerely
> Alp
> Tech Support
> CyberGulf FMS
>
Received on Tue Jan 27 1998 - 15:19:04 MST