Hey Anthony,
I see you're point. It makes sense to have multiple usernames if I want a user
to access multiple proxies. But I'm trying to create a "reseller" proxy
service, so multiple usernames for a single user won't really make sense. I can
just give users different passwords to access different proxies.
Also, I know PacketStream (https://packetstream.io/) does this and I'm pretty
sure they use Squid.
Thanks,Adrian
On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 3:55:15 PM CDT, Antony Stone
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tuesday 22 September 2020 at 22:35:36, Ajb B wrote:
> how can you map the user password to a parent proxy?
>
> so that
>
> testuser1:[email protected]:3292
> testuser1:[email protected]:3292
> testuser1:[email protected]:3292
> map to a different parent proxy?
It makes no sense to me to have one username with multiple passwords.
The username is the identifier - this tells the system who this "user" is and
the system can then find out what this "user" can do, provided they are
authenticated.
The password is the authenticator - this tells the system that the entity
trying to connect really is that user.
If you want one entity (person, script, application, whatever) to have access
to different upstream proxies (presumably for different purposes), you should
give them different identities (usernames) in order to access those proxies.
They then use the appropriate username for the access they require at the
time.
What would be the use case for one username with multiple passwords?
Antony.
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