On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:49 -0700, Gary Thornock wrote:
> --- Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The hallmark of a good presentation is when you go home and
> > tryout what you learned.  I think I'll check it out tomorrow.
> >
> > One last question...  What about user authentication?  Would
> > you let squid take care of that or does DG do any of it?
> 
> DG supports some user authentication (proxy auth and ident).  I
> believe Squid supports more (NTLM at least).  For my own setup,
> I haven't worried about doing authentication at all, but if I
> did want to start, I'd probably have DG do proxy auth (which, of
> course, would mean I couldn't use the transparent proxy anymore).

DG also supports an external method of communication.  For example, in
our department, DG hands off to a php page we wrote, passing along a
hash.  Our php script authenticats a user using our ldap system, and
then returns the hash to DG.

Michael


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