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Date:      Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:14:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com>
To:        Troy Kittrell <troyk@basspro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Squid
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990118201434.nicole@nmhtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <36A3F1C0.B2FCF22B@basspro.com>

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On 19-Jan-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Troy Kittrell  wrote:
> I need to (ASAP, as usual) fire up a proxy server. I would prefer a
> Un*x based solution rather that MS Proxy server, but need to plan for
> 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
> runnning FreeBsd/ipfw/natd. I'm tired of adding rules to rc.firewall
> plus NT Domains w/DHCP doesn't actually limit people. All they have to
> do is go to a machine that gets an (ipfw) allowed address from DHCP and
> they're on.
> 
>   Hints? Clues? Experiences?
> 


 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


> TIA!!!
> -- 
> 
>       Troy Kittrell
>       troyk@basspro.com
>       Internet Systems Coordinator
>       Bass Pro Outdoors Online
> 
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