[squid-users] Re: Getting username into squid access.log

From: Joe Kraft <hishadow@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:25:36 +0100

Mark, thanks for the offer, I'd like to take you up on it. I tried
contacting your e-mail with no luck. Please e-mail me with your correct
address.

Joe.
hishadow@netcabo.pt

Discussion Lists wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> I have been able to set up a Squid proxy that forces users to
> authenticate to it using Samba and Winbind. With a few ACL's I can
> restrict who can, and cannot access the Internet. This also shows up on
> the access.log as "domain\username." If you need more details, email me
> directly, and I will be happy to help in any way I can. BTW, this isn't
> for transparent mode, although (at least in a windows environment) you
> don't need it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Joe Kraft [mailto:hishadow@netcabo.pt]
>>Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 12:03 PM
>>To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>>Subject: [squid-users] Getting username into squid access.log
>>
>>
>>I've read so much Squid documentation that my head is
>>spinning now. I
>>just want to clear up one point before I expend any more brain bytes.
>>
>>If I set up squid to work transparently, ala FAQ 17.1 does than mean
>>that there is absolutely NO WAY I will ever be able to get squid to
>>figure out who is logged in at the machine that made the
>>request? And
>>thus, no usernames in the access.log?
>>
>>I just want to make sure that this is the behavior referenced in the
>>discussions about proxy-auth. So I can control access by the
>>IP address
>>of the machine, but not by user. Squid is not allowed by the
>>RFC to ask
>>anything back to the requesting machine, because the requester is not
>>expecting squid to be there in the middle. Is this correct so far?
>>
>>So the least intrusive way to make this work, and to have the
>>names to
>>to not use squid in a transparent mode and use the automatic
>>configuration script from FAQ 5.2?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Joe.
>>
>>
>
>
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