Re: [squid-users] authenticate_program

Matt Johnson wrote:

> I have a redirector setup, and am also using an authentication program
> to validate users, and they work fine independently... but I don't see
> how I can authenticate a user, with a "username+passoword", and then
> use the redirector to control which pages that user can go to. From
> what I can tell the redirector doesn't send the username, that was
> sent to the authenticate_program. Did I miss something here in how the
> redirectors work?

Redirectors get the authenticated username of the user requesting the
URL. This is send in the ident field to redirectors.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker