At 08:02 AM 07/11/2002, Rick Matthews wrote: > > What it does it takes the IP address of the client and checks > > it against a FLAT FILE database (which should be small to limit > > the overhead on squid, since its re-read on every request, to > > support immediate changes with out the need to SIGHUP the squid > > engine.) and if the IP address is in the database it changes the > > IDENT user to the one specified in the DB. This way you can use > > ACL's which check for different users and if found set the rules > > to change depending on every separate user. > >Couldn't you accomplish this using the built-in "iplist [filename]"? >(see <http://www.squidguard.org/config/#Sourcegroups>) > >Rick
Not really, in essance yes, but you need to SIGHUP squid for it to take effect. This is because SquidGuard loads all DB files into RAM on loading, and then doesn't re-load them until its restarted.
