From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 19 06:47:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24666 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 06:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ts.shopnet.com (ts.shopnet.com [208.131.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24661 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 06:47:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deichert@wildponies.org) Received: (from deichert@localhost) by ts.shopnet.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) id HAA05468; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:49:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:49:09 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert X-Sender: deichert@ts.shopnet.com To: Nicole Harrington cc: Troy Kittrell , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Squid In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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