Re: User Authentication - Any 'Gotchas'?

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:18:16 +1100

Simon Bryan wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am looking at having all our users be authenticated by Squid before allowing
> access. I am in the process of reading man pages, conf files, faq's etc. Is
> there anything else I should read? Are there any traps for the unwary
> (newbie)?

The authentication is synchronous to the request. Authenticate quickly.
If all your authenticators are waiting on external resources, your squid
can bog down PDQ.

D
Received on Thu Nov 11 1999 - 20:11:12 MST

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