Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
I think educating users (yes, there are 2 different passwords) would be most effective. On 23.02 10:01, Steve Brown wrote: Believe me, I wish I could. But these are sales people, and as I said, some of them aren't very bright. I do. but i think you understand that educating isthe best

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.02 10:51, Steve Brown wrote: How is there authentication without credentials? I have misunderstood your setup. What are you referring to when you say authentication because the knee-jerk reaction is to assume a username and password is authenticating... Yes there is a user/pass.

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-23 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
tis 2006-02-21 klockan 10:51 -0600 skrev Steve Brown: Yes there is a user/pass. Everyone is saying that the broswer shouldn't indiscriminately provide crednetials, which I agree with. However, in the setup I am proposing, the browser isn't submitting credentials. The traffic is intercepted

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Brown
I think educating users (yes, there are 2 different passwords) would be most effective. Believe me, I wish I could. But these are sales people, and as I said, some of them aren't very bright. 1. give users the same password for mail and proxy and probably fetch them from the same source

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-22 Thread Kinkie
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:03 -0600, Steve Brown wrote: [...] In the specific scenario I mentioned, the browser isn't submitting any credentials. The traffic is being intercepted and routed through a local proxy which in turns forwards requests to a remote proxy w/ authentication. It seems to

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-22 Thread Kinkie
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:39 -0600, Steve Brown wrote: It seems that I misunderstood what you meant. Do you want the PROXY to authenticate against its parent? Independently from who is the user it acts in behalf of? Yes, that's the idea. All users are restricted to the same ACL, so I see

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Kinkie
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 21:28 -0600, Steve Brown wrote: http://squidwiki.kinkie.it/SquidFaq/InterceptionProxy I'm confused by this link. You tell me to drop it and point me to a page that has two paragraphs about why it *shouldn't* be done, then spends the next three pages describing all the

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
OK, I talked to the boss about this and he doesn't like my explanations. I need to better understand the reasons why not. You wouldn't stand for your browser to submit credentials to any old server that asks for it, ESPECIALLY when you, the user, are not expecting it to hand out any

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
How is there authentication without credentials? I have misunderstood your setup. What are you referring to when you say authentication because the knee-jerk reaction is to assume a username and password is authenticating... Yes there is a user/pass. Everyone is saying that the broswer

RE: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Robertson
-Original Message- From: Steve Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:51 AM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth? How is there authentication without credentials? I have misunderstood

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
So the plan is to run a Squid server (service?) on every computer that is going to access the internet? That's the idea we're throwing around, yes. While that should certainly work, I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for the maintenance thereof. Every computer's squid.conf is going

RE: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Robertson
-Original Message- From: Steve Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:20 PM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth? So the plan is to run a Squid server (service?) on every computer

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
In other words, you don't need to differentiate access per site/computer/user. That's correct. Do these connections involve static IPs? src based ACLs would work nicely in that case. If they had static IPs, I would have figured this out before I posted to the list. ;-) The approach you

[squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Brown
I've got a bunch of machines at various locations on various ISPs for which I need to filter web sites. I've set up Squid w/ authentication as a proxy for these machines and put ACLs in place that allow me to whitelist certain sites. The problem I am having is that the users of these machines

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-20 Thread Mark Elsen
I've got a bunch of machines at various locations on various ISPs for which I need to filter web sites. I've set up Squid w/ authentication as a proxy for these machines and put ACLs in place that allow me to whitelist certain sites. The problem I am having is that the users of these

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Brown
Drop it : Oh boy, I can already tell this will be fun... Unfortunately, I can't drop it. I've been told to investigate this by my boss because we have a coporate liability due to these boxes having unrestricted net access. If it can't be done, that's fine, but I need some technical details as