On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Mike Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can load different configs through squid/dg at different times during
>  the day via cron.

  You can also just define a time-based ACL with "acl foo time" in Squid.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Benjamin Zachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having user based reports, not IP based reports is a nice 'value add'

  Squid can do user-based AAA (authentication, access control, accounting).

  We've got Squid set up to require user authentication for
everything.  It checks credentials against our Active Directory, and
does NTLM authentication so most users never even know it's there.
Most web activity thus includes the username in the logs.  We do have
a few destination sites that are exempt from authentication, mainly
because they're used by software that can't handle the concept of
proxy authentication.  They'd have issues with any proxy.

  Reporting is handled by the "webalizer" program, which makes pretty
graphical reports of the most frequently-requested and biggest-KB
sites and URLs, time of day, day of month, day of week, and user.

  Not too bad for the price (free).  Squid can't do everything, but it
does a lot, and that is often enough.  I expect initial configuration
is a bit daunting, but the sample config file is pretty well
documented.  I can share relevant parts of our config file if someone
is interested in a particular aspect.

-- Ben

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