Re: [squid-users] per-user authentication and settings (Squid or dg)?

Dave wrote:

> Hello,
> I apologize for the cross post, but i'm not sure which product,
> squid with proxy and authentication, or dansguardian, with user
> groups, would be best to assist with the issue i'm about to be faced
> with.
> I've got a transparent squid proxy set up with filtering and it is
> working quite nicely. Now i have need to have user authentication and
> individual user restrictions. For example, and i'll try to keep this
> as close to my situation as possible, user1 has no restrictions, can
> go anywhere. User2 only wants to go to yahoo sites, specifically
> instant message, mail, and yahoo music. User3 is allowed to play
> online games and i've got a site list of sites for them. User4 has
> been bad and has not done his homework, as a result i don't want him
> to have access to games, messaging, or any other content save another
> list of sites i approve. My thinking is to assign each of these users
> a username and an md5 password for digest authentication, yet i don't
> want to install apache for access to htdigest to pull that off. I've
> thought about ntlm, but that seems overkill for this situation, more
> than likely these user requirements will be varied. I'm also not sure
> if this is something dg would be best at or squid at the proxy level.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
Which ever direction you choose, you'll have to remove the interception
(also called transparent) nature of the proxy.

http://www.swelltech.com/support/procyonguide/ch08.html

Chris
Received on Wed May 10 2006 - 14:58:21 MDT