Re: [squid-users] Problem with Squid-DG-Squid scheme: Normal users have access to banned sites once VIP users authenticate themselves

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:11:15 -0800

Elvin Hernāndez wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I'm managing the scheme squid1-DG-squid2 in a same machine. Squid1 is configured to authenticate users via PAM and I have modified its
> configuration file to pass this authentication to DG of the following way:
>
> cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query default login=*:password
>
> The object of this configuration is that DG can assign to each authenticated user to a filter group. Each filter group is configured with
> differents levels of restrictions. In special, I have configured a filtergroup to VIP users that have less restrictions than the rest of
> users.
>
> Problem
>
> When I authenticate myself through squid1 with a normal user and I try to access a banned site (for example youtube.com), DG denies the access
> to the site. On the other hand, when I authenticate myself with a VIP user and I try to access to the same site, I can do it. Up to here, all
> is well; I can say that the filter groups that I configured in DG are working well. The problem is that once the VIP user was authenticated
> and had access to youtube.com, the rest of normal users can have access too, when it should not be happening.
>
> How can I resolve this problem? Specifically, how can I avoid that normal users canīt access to banned sites that only are allowed to VIP
> users using the scheme squid1-DG-squid2?
>
> Regards
>
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Make sure caching is ONLY happening on Squid-2. Requests for cached
content on Squid-1 will not be passed through DG.

Chris
Received on Thu Jun 14 2007 - 13:11:31 MDT

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