On 19/02/2004, at 9:59 AM, Kevin Giguere wrote:
I am thinking about using Authoxy and have found some odd behavior with multiple users.
It seems that the first user to start using Authoxy to access the web gets assigned to authoxyd.
Yes, the user that runs startAuthoxy, or clicks Start in the Preference Pane will be the owner of the authoxyd process. Unfortunately, that means the only users that can stop the daemon is the user that started it, or root.
I one logs out and another user logs in, authoxyd is still assigned to the original user.
Yes, only one authoxyd parent process can be running. If the old one hasn't been stopped, a new one can't be started by another user.
/Library/PreferencePanes/Authoxy.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/authoxyd d2hlZWxzOnN0d2g3NTczAKA=BfQ= 192.168.1.3 8080 8080 false false
Is the Bold the password?
d2hlZWxzOnN0d2g3NTczAKA=BfQ= is your base64 encoded username and password.
If I have misconfigured (hopefully) has anyone got the procedure to avoid this?
No, I don't think you've configured anything incorrectly as such.
If not there is no way to monitor individual users unless there is a reboot of the machine!
Hmm, I'm thinking a strategy like this:
1. Put startAuthoxy in each user's login items.
2. Write a script which will kill authoxyd
This can be as simple as a text file with this in it:
#!/bin/sh
killall authoxyd
3. Run the script when the user logs out.
Possibly use the logouthook method described here: <http://www.bombich.com/mactips/loginhooks.html>
4. Log in and out at will!
Each time a user logs in, authoxyd will start under their name, using their preferences. Any logging authoxyd does however, will still go to the single system log. Perhaps you could log a header to the system log each time someone logs in, so you know who was logged in when authoxyd's logs appeared.
I do forsee issues with Fast User Switching though. Enabling that would take quite a bit more work...
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