> From: Chris Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I believe I am right in thinking that providing identd is
> installed on client PC's, I can define an ACL for squid with a list of PC
> hostnames in, then tell squid whether to allow these names or not? I don't
> want to block on username, I want to block by the name of the computer
> itself....if this isn't possible has anyone got any suggestions as to how I
> might do this?
>
You only need ident if you care about the username.
You can block on client hostname with the src acl.
eg.
acl denied_host src "denied_host.lst"
[...]
http_access deny denied_host
Where denied_host.lst contains a list of IP addresses or hostnames.
David.
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