On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:56 +0800, Steve wrote:
> Hi ALL,
> 
> I am new to squid and wondering anyone could help about how the squid 
> get username from the OS environment.
> 
> Did the browser send anything to squid to tell it about the client 
> identity? or squid will resolve the identity based on the source ip 
> addresses?

It can be both, usually it's the former.

> I have a scenario here: I wish i can define a set of acl rules based on 
> username in squid. Since the client is not using standard authentication 
> method of any kind, i am thinking if the squid can be modified to 
> resolve the username based on client's source ip address. for your 
> information, the client may anyhow loggin via web page and be 
> authenticated locally by the an self written easy authentication 
> service. means, the username can be obtained locally by squid. i am 
> hoping that the squid can then filter the traffic based on the 
> predefined acl (using username). any other suggestion in accomplishing this?

You might want to check the ident protocol and related RFCs.


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