Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:49:09 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> Cc: Troy Kittrell <troyk@basspro.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Squid Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990119074459.5363B-100000@ts.shopnet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990118201434.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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Actually having to authenticate is the only way a lot of corporate users will allow web access. When you have systems that are in a public area it's easier to control at the internet connection. diana On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Nicole Harrington wrote: > > On 19-Jan-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Troy Kittrell wrote: > > the future. Squid seems to be the (proxy) drug of choice. That future > > holds several hundred users that I'd much rather manage the > > username/passwd from a centralized location (LDAP!). > > I've gleaned the docs for Squid and can find nothing that indicates > > that users can be authenticated from an LDAP server. LDAP seems to be > > the only choice I could try to use that all of our other corporate > > services (AS/400, Notes, NT Domains, Netware) can share. > > The purpose of the proxy server is not actually to cache and conserve > > bandwidth, but as a means to limit access from our corporate network to > > the internet. So far this has been accomplished quite well by a POS/486 > > > Why would you want to use LDAP? > Usually you filter by Ip address range. > Seems odd having to enter a password to browse the web. > > Just my .02c > > Nicole Diana Eichert IT Manager McKinley Paper Company deeiche@mckinleypaper.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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