On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:35:21PM +0530, Deep Ganatra wrote:
You can use authentication for squid for web surfing, but that will not block application which do not go through squid. Personally, I would setup NIS/LDAP as centralized authentication and push firewall rules based on login and logout events for the LDAP server.
Basically i m gonna install squid on the main server and i dont want anyone to enter proxy address in the IE options or in any brower to surf...so is it possible to use squid without entering proxy address in all the machines ?
Why do you want to do that? I don't think there is any nice clean way to allow users to continue browsing without being aware of the proxy. Unless you have a really impelling policy/technical reason to do this, don't worry about setting up some hack to manage it! Centralised LDAP-based authentication and the combination of the right tools at the right place will go a long way in keeping headaches away over the years!
Sameer.