Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:11:34 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Gareth Bailey <gjbailey@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Internet sharing authentication Message-ID: <41F50216.2060206@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <48a5f32a05012405206911ca59@mail.gmail.com> References: <48a5f32a05012405206911ca59@mail.gmail.com>
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Gareth Bailey wrote: > Greetings, > > I have set up a FreeBSD gateway/firewall with ipf and ipnat in the > past, but I am now confronted with a new challenge. I need to setup > the firewall to only allow internet (www) access to users who > successfully authenticate themselves with a username/password > combination. > > Ideally, a user will open their web browser and be confronted with a > authentication popup before gaining access to browse the web. Users > should be able to access mail without authentication. Squid seems to be your friend for www/ftp. What do you mean by accessing mail without authenticatoin? hotmail or similar? If you want to provide mail service yourself, then users must authenticate in order not to be able to read others mail, also by authenticating smtp and only allow smtp to your server you prevent virus and spambots from spreading. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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