Re: [squid-users] No userid in access.log

Hi Henrik,

I have no idea about how to write the custom helper, is there any hint
for that? Thanks!

Best regards,
CC Ng

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> fre 2008-04-04 klockan 10:56 +0800 skrev CC Ngu:
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>> When I use Login=PASS in cache_peer option (i.e. pass the authentication
>> to the parent), there is no userid information in the access.log, is it
>> possible to show the userid in the local squid's access.log?
>>
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> You need to tech Squid how to sniff the userid from the traffic in such
> case. Actually not too hard, but some coding is needed. I would suggest
> starting by using an external acl type for the purpose..
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> external_acl_type %{Proxy-Authenticate} /path/to/your/helper
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> and in your custom helper pars the Proxy-Authenticate headers and return
> a suitable USER=xxx attribute on Squid when a username is seen.
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> This will work for the standard HTTP authentication schemes (i.e. Basic
> and Digest), but will fail for the Microsoft hacked shemes (i.e.
> NTLM/Negotiate/Kerberos) for the same reasons these are hard to proxy...
>
> Regards
> Henrik
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Received on Mon Apr 07 2008 - 10:46:52 MDT