Re: [squid-users] about squid with ident

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:24, gaocy@digitalchina.com wrote:
> as we all known,when taking squid as transparent proxy,the auth cannt be
> used.
> So I think takeing the third part ident for auth when squid as transparent
> proxy,
> could someone give me some advice for it?
> thank you!
> how about ident server?

Ident *may* work. You will need to guarantee that the ident request
appears to come from the origin server, not the proxy. This will need a
magic L7 switch, or some iptables/ipfilter style magic.

Good luck.

Rob