From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 4 08:51:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14046 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ethel.basspro.com (ethel.basspro.com [12.14.224.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA14041 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:51:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troyk@basspro.com) Received: from gateway.basspro.com by ethel.basspro.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/29Jan96-0343PM) id AA12490; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:50:13 -0600 Message-Id: <36B9CF83.33363385@basspro.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:49:07 -0600 From: Troy Kittrell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jenkins Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Squid LDAP auth References: <199902041638.KAA08399@carp.gbr.epa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The reason LDAP, or SMB for that matter, would be important to us is the fact that we have a very mixed environment of server platforms. An LDAP database seems at this time to be the only common connection between all of them. As for squid, one can call any program desired that accepts a username/password as input and returns OK or ERR as output for squid to decide whether or not to let the user through the proxy. The only thing I've used radius for is modem accounting and authentication. In my case it uses the /etc/passwd file to allow a login to a portmaster. This same system is also the pop3 server, so the password for a dial-up user gets changed in one place for multiple services. That help any? Mike Jenkins wrote: > > If you have time ... > Can you quickly explain what all this LDAP auth stuff is? > Does that mean one checks a username/password against an > entry in a LDAP database verse the /etc/passwd or .htpasswd? > How does this compare to RADIUS (which I also know nothing about)? > > Thanks, > Mike -- Troy Kittrell troyk@basspro.com Internet Systems Coordinator Bass Pro Outdoors Online To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message