On Friday 19 April 2002 07:17, fredinho carioca wrote: > hello, > does netfilter allow authentication? > i 'm finding a solution to authenticate users when they want to access a > web server via my netfilter firewall > have you a solution > thanks > fred
Hello, Authentication can be done either by an application proxy (squid, zorp, etc..), a socket proxy (socks proxy), or using an offband mechanism (like checkpoint does) the later does require a client on each machine using the firewall. I strongely recommend the clean way : application proxy. Have a nice day, Fabrice. -- Fabrice MARIE Senior R&D Engineer Celestix Networks http://www.celestix.com/ "Silly hacker, root is for administrators" -Unknown
