Re: Authentication problem

Nick Sparkes wrote:

> Hello out there,
>
> We are currently looking at Squid as a replacement Proxy Server, but one of the things my boss would like is some way of telling which user is accessing the Internet. Would I be right in thinking that using the acl list is the only way of authenticating at present?
>
> We are a Novell House and users authenticate to a NDS tree when they first log in, and they are allocated an IP address using DHCP servers (either Novell or NT).
>
> Ideally I would like to integrate the authentication with NDS, absolutely no idea if this is possible. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick.
>
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Checkout the current state of novell's LDAP backend for NDS - it may be OK for doing proxyauth, also look at running an ident service on the desktop, and using ident.

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