Re: [squid-users] limiting users by their groups

On 27/09/2013 12:00 a.m., ana any wrote:
> Hi guys
> i want to have many users in different groups and control user limitations according to their groups (each group has some access configurations).
> i cannot add squid users to OS (such as what we do in external ACLs)
> I wanted to know, is there a way to do this?

Do you mean groups as in User Groups in an authentication maagement
system? or groups as in the mathematical concept of Set Theory?
  What you can do depends on which.

If you mean groups from a management system then whatever management
system you already have is the way you should go. You mention the OS not
being an option, but Squid can be connected to any number (literally
singular or multiple) of other account management systems or software
using external_acl_type helpers - the choice is yours.

If you mean groups as in set theory, that is what Squid does for most of
the "acl" directives: each ACL name is a group name for which the values
of the ACL are tests to be applied to the transaction. What access are
permitted for each depends on how you order the ACL names in the access
rule directives of squid.conf (http_access etc)

Amos
Received on Thu Sep 26 2013 - 14:46:41 MDT