Re: [squid-users] Squid user access / authentication problem

See the documentation of the authenticate_ip_ttl and
authenticate_ip_ttl_is_strict directives in squid.conf.defautl.

Regards
Henrik Nordström

On Monday 17 December 2001 13.26, FLORIAN.LEIBENZEDER@LHSYSTEMS.COM wrote:

> We are using squid with user authentication to allow our users to surf the
> web. As the traffic is accounted on a per user base we are looking for a
> way to make sure that no two users can use the proxy with the same userid
> at the same time form different locations. At the same time means, that if
> a user connects from one IP and a second user (with the same
> userid)connects a few minutes later from another IP this second user should
> be denied access. A possibility would be to cache a timestamp with each
> request and if a request with the same userid is made from a different IP
> shortly after the first request: block it. If no further request is made,
> release the "lock" after 5 minutes or so.
> Does anybody know of an existing solution / plugin, etc. for squid?

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