Re: [squid-users] authentication abuse

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Peter Kassies wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm running:
> - Squid v2.3.3 (in a parent and child cluster)
> - NCSA (for user authentication purposes)
> - Junkbusters (to filter out the banners)
> - SARG (for analysis of the logfile)
>
> I've also created a script which does all the dirty work (clean up logfiles)
> automatically, so it's basically a "zero administration proxyservice" for
> about 20k users within our organisation.
>
> With NCSA we have a problem that people are "sharing" the same proxy
> account. This is very annoing, because we check on abuse reguarly and cannot
> determine who was responsible.

Yes you can. It's the owner of the username and password. Hit on them. If
they share their username/password, they accept responsibility for its
abuse. Bash up one or two of them and the sharing will stop.

Colin

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Colin Campbell
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