I should have posted this in the user group but I thought I could post here first since this group should contain the best of the mod proxy experts
Thanks I wish to do the following 1) there will be about 30 computers connected in LAN 2) I intend to use apache mod proxy in one gateway computer say gcomp1 and make all the 30 computers access the internet only THROUGH gcomp1 proxy is needed for ftp, sftp, ssh , smtp, pop , http and https protocols socks ? My questions are 1) Is this advisable? Is apache mod proxy better or worse than using other proxies like socks.nec etc ? 2) Can apache mod proxy (with the addition of necessary modules) handle all the above 7 protocols ? 3) *the most important* I want the apache mod proxy to be setup this way. Say a client computer clientcomp1 wants to access an external ftp or SFTP server ..extserver1 The user in the client computer enters the following details in his/her sftp/ftp client hostname: gcomp1 (the local gateway server IP address where apache mod proxy is working) username: user214214 pass: 23jjksdhafkhk and once the sftp/ftp client connects to the apache mod proxy server gateway gcomp1 the mod proxy apache server needs to forward/proxy this connection to extserver1 username: differentusername password: different password Maybe A mapping file should be able to configured in mod proxy to let it know which external server to forward the request for a particular internal username like for example user214214: extserver1:differentusername:differentpassword user453646: extserver2:differentusername2:differentpassword2 and so on The objective of the whole exercise is to secure all the usernames , passwords for the external servers and isolate them from the internal users fully and completely. Is the above possible in apache mod proxy ? If not is there any proxy/gateway available which does the above ? Thanks chris
