AW: [squid-users] Users Authentication on the second proxy of a chain

From: Michael Meiszl <Michael@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:27:44 +0200

> Hi all,
>
> Let's consider the following architecture :
>
> User --- Squid1 --- Squid2 --- Internet
>
> In this architecture, two Squid proxies are chained. Imagine that you want
> to perform user authentication on the second proxy Squid2 (and eventually
> access control and URL filtering based on the identity of the user and
> SmartFilter).
You can, but I would recommend Authentication on Squid1
>
> Is it possible with Squid?!? How does it work? Can I still perform proxy
> authentication between the two proxies?
Yes and no.
If Users are authenticated on S1, S1 can authenticate to S2.
Else S1 needs to be transparent, so that S2 can check the user accounts.
MAM
Received on Tue Sep 11 2001 - 03:28:03 MDT

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