Re: [squid-users] Help! Can squid authentication log user activities?

Squid's authentication should work just fine.

In case of Squid there is no "login/logout", only authentication which
is performed per request.

The question you need to ask next is where is the end-user database
information kept? (login+password). Then pick a suitable Squid
authentication module for connecting to this user database.

If you do not have a user database today, then you need to carefully
consider how you imagine that you'd like to use the user database. If
only for Squid then pick NCSA as it is a very simple approach to start
with. If more complex uses then I'd recommend considering LDAP or some
other network user directory. Well, in fact if you have more than a 50
users I'd probably recommend LDAP even if only for Squid, as it is very
likely you'd like to extend the functionality of the userdatabase later
on to also contain email address directory and similar things.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Fred Kamwaza wrote:
> 
> Dear Henrik,
> 
> Thanks very much indeed for your invaluable assistance.  I very much
> appreciate your guidance.  I have taken note of all tips.
> 
> I am, however, in a difficult situation.  I operate a LAN with a very large
> number of users but our bandwidth is small.  The user share machines.  What
> I would really like to do is allow access only to those registered.  When
> they login, the system should then take logs of who ever is logging on to
> the system, going on to the Internet. I would like to capture the following
> information, 'Username', 'IP of machine logged from', 'Time logged
> in', 'Time logged out' and if possible amount of data transfered in bytes.
> 
> I was of the opinion that the squid authentication would help me do that.
> If this is not possible using squid, would you know of anyway I can do this?
> 
> I am running my system with RedHat 6.2 as a server, on a LAN, with Windows
> 98 machines as clients.