Re: Squid-2.0.RELEASE: cachemgr and proxy_auth [patch]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> I regard it as more of a problem to have such a inflexible and separate
> access control to cachemgr as the current one is.

Does anybody need a more flexible and integrated control? :)
 
> What about this comromise:
>
> acl aclname manager <cachemgr_passwd actions, or ANY>
> acl aclname password user:password ...,
> wildcard (*) user allowed if only the correct password is required.
>
> and that "manager shutdown" and "manager config" needs to be defined to
> be allowed at all (like "method PURGE").

Sounds OK to me as long as it does not require a mandatory external process
to authenticate.

Alex.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:54 MDT