[squid-users] writing my own authenticator

2008-03-21 Thread paul cooper
so ip_user wont actually do what i want ( the book isnt clear actually what it is there for) - thanks Henrik what i want is to get the currently logged-in user and pass it to squid which will then authenticate against that with no further dialog boxes etc . i can then add eg time-based ACLs

Re: [squid-users] writing my own authenticator

2008-03-21 Thread Amos Jeffries
paul cooper wrote: so ip_user wont actually do what i want ( the book isnt clear actually what it is there for) - thanks Henrik what i want is to get the currently logged-in user and pass it to squid which will then authenticate against that with no further dialog boxes etc . i can then add

Re: [squid-users] writing my own authenticator

2008-03-21 Thread paul cooper
I think im also confused about the interaction between the browser, squid and external authenticators in spite of reading Ch12 several times. it says ..Ch6 lists tokens you can pass from squid - helper and external ACL helper interface allows additional information from helper to squid ...as

Re: [squid-users] writing my own authenticator

2008-03-21 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 15:37 +, paul cooper wrote: I think im also confused about the interaction between the browser, squid and external authenticators in spite of reading Ch12 several times. authentication and external acls is very different things. authentication is based on