Yes you can use multiple files with different users in the with one login
file. 
Check out my acl list. http://members.lycos.co.uk/njadmin/
You can even change what they have access to per group.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Baptista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [squid-users] Squid Authentication utilising user 
> group definitions in a separate file
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I realise that user authentication in squid is done via an external 
> authentication program (e.g. NCSA module) with the 
> appropriate password 
> file.  Administratively it is preferable to write Authentication ACLs 
> using Groups rather than User Names.  Hence grouping ACLs are defined 
> that enumerate users within a group.  Each time a new user is added, 
> besides the passwd file, even the squid.conf file has to be 
> modified to 
> add the user to the required group ACL.
> 
> Instead of each time modifying the squid.conf file, is it possible to 
> utilise another file (e.g. group.conf) where we may define ACLs that 
> assign users to groups, while maintaining the squid.conf file 
> constant, 
> and including the group.conf into squid.conf using some sort of an 
> include statement?
> 
> I ask this question because I would like to modify the users 
> automatically through a program, and would prefer to 
> autogenerate only a 
> small file, rather than the complete squid.conf where many 
> options are 
> unlikely to be changed over time.
> 
> Also is it possible to add the user group(s) directly to the 
> /squid/etc/passwd file that is used by the NCSA module or is 
> there some 
> other authentication module that takes care of user groups?  
> I am using 
> RedHat Linux 7.3 and 9.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 

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