>I'm just starting to use squidguard, I've been using squid as a caching
>proxy at home for two years now. It was a very basic install, that I
>just setup and use... absolutely no maintenance.
>Anyway, I would like to setup squid/squidguard at work to limit and
>monitor user activity on the web. I have a few questions:
>1) I noticed this statement, " redirect unregistered user to a
>registration form" on the squidguard intro page as one of its
>capabilities. My understanding is that this means squidguard can force
>someone to register on first web acces so that it can log their usage.
>Am I correct, if so I haven't been able to find any info on setting
>this up... how would I go about it? (Even a little info would be
>helpful here, as I could find no reference of this anywhere else.)
Not seems any info on this, but again this would be useful
>2) From everyone elses experience, what is the best way to identify
>users? Via the registration page I just mentioned, or an ident server
>on each client, or stricly by IP (not desirable, I would imagine, in a
>DHCP environment). Some of my personal thoughts here, I thought a
>registration page would be annoying, but I'd rather not have to install
>an ident server on everybox, and IPs don't make much sense to managers
>(the people wishing to limit / monitor usage).
I am using squid in conjunction with an NT domain, and have found a module
that will allow me to authenticate against NT domain users. I have then
found that the reporting tools e.g. "sqmgrlog / sqarg" does a good job at
reporting user stats. I have used this a several sites and the outcome is
adequate and detailed enough.
>I'm looking for opinions and best practice recommendations. Any
>information will be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Bert
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