Re: Authentication:the same userid from only one station at a time

From: Gabana Andrea <andrea.gabana@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:58:19 +0100

This is my problem. I have two users (let's say A and B) and only A has a valid
userid. As A is a good friend of B, A tells B his password. They work at different
workstations. I wish that either A or B can connect in the same moment to Squid.
Now I can't use delay pools.

Jonathan Larmour wrote:

> Gabana Andrea wrote:
> >
> > > > Is there anyone who knows how can I force Squid 2.1 P2 to let one userid
> > > > to be used only from one client at the same time?
> > The clients are win 95 /win NT with Netscape 4.xx or MSIE 3 or greater
>
> Those are single user OS's - how do you expect more than one client to use
> it _at_the_same_time_? Or do you mean you only want one connection from each
> PC at once?
>
> If the latter then I don't believe squid can enforce this in any way. But
> you might be able to achieve your overall objective (presumably restricting
> overuse of web access) using delay pools.
>
> See squid.conf and http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-19.html#ss19.7
>
> Jifl
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Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 10:09:54 MST

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