Re: [squid-users] What is the best way to authenticate remote users with dynamic ip?

2008-04-14 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Dear Roma, If you want to authenticate users through a captive portal mechanism you should think to IP Address as user identity. Although it is possible to implement a cookie-based authentication but it is more complex and needs to detailed explanation. Regards, - Original Message

Re: [squid-users] Authenticating users with a webpage form

2007-12-03 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Dear Mr. Jones, I think you are looking for an integration between some different requirements and integration is somehow complicated. That is captive portal, caching/proxying and user accounting. Squid hasn't written with a vision to support all of above requirement. Although they can be

Re: [squid-users] Authenticating users with a webpage form

2007-12-01 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, If your workstations are not behind NAT there is a simple solution as below: 1- Block all local IP ranges to access the net as default. 2- Change the error page so that the users which are denied access to be redirected to login page. 3- Create a file which consists of allowed IP addresses

Re: [squid-users] Re: SARG

2006-05-31 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Dear Nima, Which version of SARG do you use? Upgrade your SARG to latest version. Some older versions have such bug. Regards, --- nima sadeghian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the cpu is 3.0 and free hard space is about 100GB. very strange. I used it in GNOME. could graphical interface effect

Re: [squid-users] delay pools

2006-03-27 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, - Have you enabled delay pools during build of your squid? - As you may know you, lines which begin with hash mark are not parsed by squid. To activate a configuration you should remove hash marks. Regards, --- dharam paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I write my delay pools like this after

Re: [squid-users] Squid Authentication

2006-03-27 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, How do you expect the browser to send authentication information without user intervention? sending authentication information automatically, contradicts with authentication concept. Maybe you look for an authentication mechanism like web login? Regards, --- Rachel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [squid-users] Squid Authentication

2006-03-27 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, How do you expect the browser to send authentication information without user intervention? sending authentication information automatically, contradicts with authentication concept. Maybe you look for an authentication mechanism like web login? Regards, --- Rachel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [squid-users] IP + NCSA auth

2005-09-06 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
hi, There is an external ACL helper in squid source tree named ip_user which allows to restrict users to IP addresses. --- Varun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can I combine ACL rules for IP based and NCSA auth together and bind them together ? Thanks Varun

Re: [squid-users] Few probs Again

2005-09-04 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, You can simply make use of alias. For example to open your squid.conf file with vim you can define an alias in your bash as follow: alias edit-squid=vim /path/to/squid.conf then by enetring edit-squid in command line you can edit your squid.conf from any path. To make this alias permanet

Re: [squid-users] single squid proxy caching multiple http servers

2005-09-04 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, You should search for reverse proxying. --- Jeremy Pettet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I think this question it too simple because I have not been able to find a definitive answer. I want to speed up a php-based web site and I was thinking of having a single machine running

Re: [squid-users] What antivirus solution do u recommend?

2005-08-25 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
I recommend using ICAP (Ineternet Content Adaption Protocol), a lightweight protocl to pass http message to ICAP servers for modification or adaption. For more information refer to ICAP RFC. Today, It is the preferred approach in commercial products. However, open source implementations are in

Re: [squid-users] I need htpasswd

2005-08-17 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
It is part of Apache distribution. If you have installed Apache before, you can do a locate to find htpasswd. It usually resides beside apache executables. If you don't want to install apache you can download and install htpasswd separately, for example from here:

Re: [squid-users] I need one command

2005-08-17 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Simply you can use top command. In addition there are a number of ports in ports collection, mostly in sysutils directory, which can provide you useful information about system status. --- Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run squid on my freebsd box and i need to know the free

Re: [squid-users] Squid, Antivirus Pf

2005-06-30 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi, To answer your first question I suggest using squid ICAP client. I think using ICAP can lead to better performance. --- Maxime Woznicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up my own gateway using OpenBSD, Pf (filtering + QoS) and Squid. I have several problems : I

Re: [squid-users] web base squid configuration package

2005-06-26 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
What do you mean exactly? If you are looking for a web based configuration for squid, you can use squid webmin module. --- ashkan almaspour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want configure squid based on web base. it is possible ?please help me.

Re: [squid-users] Logfile Analysis

2005-06-14 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
It is important to know which kinds of reports and analysis do you need? Do you want to monitor squid itself or users activities? As far as I know each of this tools covers some portions of needs and there is not an integrated tool for log analysis, reporting and some sorts of monitoring.

Re: Re: [squid-users] Logfile Analysis

2005-06-14 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Yes, It has a nice web interface with many features. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the quick response. I'm interested in monitoring all aspects of a user's activities. A web interface would also be preferable since management may want to have direct access to this

Re: [squid-users] too many messages in cache.log

2005-06-01 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Probably you have run squid with -k debug option which causes squid to generate full log messages. --- Askar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I duno why but one of our cache server's cache.log is full of messages like this 2005/06/01 10:40:25| WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for:

[squid-users] is there tproxy patch for freebsd?

2005-05-25 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
Hi list, Does any one know if there is a patch similar to BalaBit patches for transparent proxying (http://www.balabit.com/downloads/tproxy/) to Freebsd kernel? Another question: Is it necessary such patches to be implemented in kernel level? May it be possible to implement it using packet

Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy + auth

2005-05-01 Thread S.M.H. Hamidi
This solution only works when there is a one-to-one mapping between users and ip addresses but imagine circumstances where all users have same ip addresses( e.g. terminal server users). The definite solution to this problem is cookie-based authentication which is implemented by some commercial