RE: User Authentiction

From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:08:50 +1000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joey Coco [mailto:anesthes@cisdi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:06 PM
> To: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: User Authentiction
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Squid's authentication API works fairly well.
>
> It appears (of course, if I havn't neglected to research
> appropriately) that you have only two options:
>
> 1) Everyone gets prompted for authentication when accessing the cache.
> -or-
> 2) Noone does.

Not true. Only requests that trigger proxy_auth acl checks will trigger
authentication.
 
> What I'd like to do, is set it up so genericly noone (regardless of IP
> network) is prompted for authentication, however, if one
> wishes to "log in" they can clink on a link, or in some other
> way trigger the authentication routines.

Just allow certain destinations without proxy auth.

No need to tweak code at all..

Rob
Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 06:08:54 MDT

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