Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > I think educating users (yes, there are 2 different passwords) would be > > most effective. On 23.02 10:01, Steve Brown wrote: > Believe me, I wish I could. But these are sales people, and as I > said, some of them aren't very bright. I do. but i think you understand that educating isthe bes

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Brown
> I think educating users (yes, there are 2 different passwords) would be most > effective. Believe me, I wish I could. But these are sales people, and as I said, some of them aren't very bright. > 1. give users the same password for mail and proxy and probably fetch them > from the same source

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-23 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
tis 2006-02-21 klockan 10:51 -0600 skrev Steve Brown: > Yes there is a user/pass. Everyone is saying that the broswer > shouldn't indiscriminately provide crednetials, which I agree with. > However, in the setup I am proposing, the browser isn't submitting > credentials. The traffic is intercep

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.02 10:51, Steve Brown wrote: > > How is there "authentication" without credentials? I have misunderstood > > your setup. What are you referring to when you say "authentication" because > > the knee-jerk reaction is to assume a username and password is > > authenticating... > > Yes there is

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-22 Thread Kinkie
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:39 -0600, Steve Brown wrote: > > It seems that I misunderstood what you meant. Do you want the PROXY to > > authenticate against its parent? Independently from who is the user it > > acts in behalf of? > > Yes, that's the idea. All users are restricted to the same ACL, so

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-22 Thread Steve Brown
> It seems that I misunderstood what you meant. Do you want the PROXY to > authenticate against its parent? Independently from who is the user it > acts in behalf of? Yes, that's the idea. All users are restricted to the same ACL, so I see no reason to try to auth w/ differnt users, except maybe

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-22 Thread Kinkie
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:03 -0600, Steve Brown wrote: [...] > In the specific scenario I mentioned, the browser isn't submitting any > credentials. The traffic is being intercepted and routed through a > local proxy which in turns forwards requests to a remote proxy w/ > authentication. It seems

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
> In other words, you don't need to differentiate access > per site/computer/user. That's correct. > Do these connections involve static IPs? src based > ACLs would work nicely in that case. If they had static IPs, I would have figured this out before I posted to the list. ;-) > The approach y

RE: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Robertson
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:20 PM > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth? > > > > So the plan is to run a Squid

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
> So the plan is to run a Squid server (service?) on every > computer that is going to access the internet? That's the idea we're throwing around, yes. > While that should certainly work, I wouldn't want to be > the one responsible for the maintenance thereof. > Every computer's squid.conf is goi

RE: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Robertson
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:51 AM > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth? > > > > How is there "authenticati

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
> How is there "authentication" without credentials? I have misunderstood > your setup. What are you referring to when you say "authentication" because > the knee-jerk reaction is to assume a username and password is > authenticating... Yes there is a user/pass. Everyone is saying that the bros

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
OK, I talked to the boss about this and he doesn't like my explanations. I need to better understand the reasons why not. > You wouldn't stand for your browser to submit > credentials to any old server that asks for it, ESPECIALLY when you, the > user, are not expecting it to hand out any informa

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-21 Thread Kinkie
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 21:28 -0600, Steve Brown wrote: > > http://squidwiki.kinkie.it/SquidFaq/InterceptionProxy > > I'm confused by this link. You tell me to "drop it" and point me to a > page that has two paragraphs about why it *shouldn't* be done, then > spends the next three pages describing

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Brown
> Drop it : Oh boy, I can already tell this will be fun... Unfortunately, I can't drop it. I've been told to investigate this by my boss because we have a coporate liability due to these boxes having unrestricted net access. If it can't be done, that's fine, but I need some technical details as

Re: [squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-20 Thread Mark Elsen
> I've got a bunch of machines at various locations on various ISPs for > which I need to filter web sites. I've set up Squid w/ authentication > as a proxy for these machines and put ACLs in place that allow me to > whitelist certain sites. > > The problem I am having is that the users of these m

[squid-users] Solutions for transparent + proxy_auth?

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Brown
I've got a bunch of machines at various locations on various ISPs for which I need to filter web sites. I've set up Squid w/ authentication as a proxy for these machines and put ACLs in place that allow me to whitelist certain sites. The problem I am having is that the users of these machines are