Re: [squid-users] Using ident or proxy_auth with cache_peer_access

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 03.20, J Lachlan Kanaley wrote:

> I have set up two caches, with the slow one being a parent to the
> faster one, but denying access to it for all users except those we
> want to slow. If I use a source IP address for the
> cache_peer_access the system works fine. If I use an ident or
> proxy_auth name it simply goes through the faster connection
> regardless.

Ident can not work in cache_peer_access.

proxy_auth is supposed to work, but known to be broken if you use the
ntlm scheme.

See http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/

> Does anyone have any suggestions? I noticed a posting (in 2001)
> from a man who had written a patch to allow the use of ident in
> this way. Did this ever make it into the development tree? Has
> anyone got any alternative configurations to try?

No idea. Can you give a pointer to the patch so we can investigate?

Regards
Henrik

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