[squid-users] How squid get and make use of username?

Hi ALL,

I am new to squid and wondering anyone could help about how the squid
get username from the OS environment.

Did the browser send anything to squid to tell it about the client
identity? or squid will resolve the identity based on the source ip
addresses?

I have a scenario here: I wish i can define a set of acl rules based on
username in squid. Since the client is not using standard authentication
method of any kind, i am thinking if the squid can be modified to
resolve the username based on client's source ip address. for your
information, the client may anyhow loggin via web page and be
authenticated locally by the an self written easy authentication
service. means, the username can be obtained locally by squid. i am
hoping that the squid can then filter the traffic based on the
predefined acl (using username). any other suggestion in accomplishing this?

anyone can tell me about generally how the squid get username from the
system, how they make use of the username (does squid resolve the ip?)
and how the acl is enforce to that user?

Thank you.

Steve
Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 21:01:01 MST