RE: [squid-users] Authentication TTL

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Travis Bullock wrote:

> Thanks Duane,
>
> Is there a way to get the desired result from squid? Basically management
> wants people to re-authenticate after 15 minutes in case someone walks away
> from a multiuser station and leaves their browser open. This would prevent
> someone else from being able to browse the web under a different users
> account.

I think this would have to be a new feature. We could probably
hack Squid so that it send a "401 Unauthorized" response every so
often. It would probably work. However, that is not necessarily
any guarantee that the browser would forget the current credentials.

Duane W.
Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 13:12:04 MST