Re: [squid-users] Disconnecting client per username?

On 2013-04-23 13:34, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 23/04/2013 9:44 p.m., Wojciech Kubiak wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there any possibility to disconnect/kick/force reconnect a given
>> squid user's session by his user name, other than simply restarting
>> squid?
>>
>> I can't use the client's IP address to do this, because the
>> connection between the client and the proxy server is running through
>> a SSH tunnel.
>
> The only way to kick an existing connection is to identify the IP:port
> and use TCP control tools to force the connection to die.
>
> The cachemanager system has access to a list of active client
> connections. So it should be relatively easy to add a manager action
> that locates and kills a client connectivity.
> Patches to implement this addition to cachemgr are welcome in squid-dev.
>
> Amos

On 2013-04-23 13:34, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 23/04/2013 9:44 p.m., Wojciech Kubiak wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there any possibility to disconnect/kick/force reconnect a given
>> squid user's session by his user name, other than simply restarting
>> squid?
>>
>> I can't use the client's IP address to do this, because the
>> connection between the client and the proxy server is running through
>> a SSH tunnel.
>
> The only way to kick an existing connection is to identify the IP:port
> and use TCP control tools to force the connection to die.
>
> The cachemanager system has access to a list of active client
> connections. So it should be relatively easy to add a manager action
> that locates and kills a client connectivity.
> Patches to implement this addition to cachemgr are welcome in squid-dev.
>
> Amos

Thanks for your reply Amos.

I wrote in my original message that I can't use IP:port for kicking
because all clients connect to the proxy via a SSH tunnel. Because of
this, all clients appear as coming from localhost in the logs and
cachemanager.

Or am I misinterpreting something?

Wojciech
Received on Thu Apr 25 2013 - 07:12:46 MDT