Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:14:34 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> To: Troy Kittrell <troyk@basspro.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Squid Message-ID: <XFMail.990118201434.nicole@nmhtech.com> In-Reply-To: <36A3F1C0.B2FCF22B@basspro.com>
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On 19-Jan-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Troy Kittrell wrote:
> I need to (ASAP, as usual) fire up a proxy server. I would prefer a
> Un*x based solution rather that MS Proxy server, but need to plan for
> the future. Squid seems to be the (proxy) drug of choice. That future
> holds several hundred users that I'd much rather manage the
> username/passwd from a centralized location (LDAP!).
> I've gleaned the docs for Squid and can find nothing that indicates
> that users can be authenticated from an LDAP server. LDAP seems to be
> the only choice I could try to use that all of our other corporate
> services (AS/400, Notes, NT Domains, Netware) can share.
> The purpose of the proxy server is not actually to cache and conserve
> bandwidth, but as a means to limit access from our corporate network to
> the internet. So far this has been accomplished quite well by a POS/486
> runnning FreeBsd/ipfw/natd. I'm tired of adding rules to rc.firewall
> plus NT Domains w/DHCP doesn't actually limit people. All they have to
> do is go to a machine that gets an (ipfw) allowed address from DHCP and
> they're on.
>
> Hints? Clues? Experiences?
>
Why would you want to use LDAP?
Usually you filter by Ip address range.
Seems odd having to enter a password to browse the web.
Just my .02c
Nicole
> TIA!!!
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>
> Troy Kittrell
> troyk@basspro.com
> Internet Systems Coordinator
> Bass Pro Outdoors Online
>
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