Re: squid , linux & NDS

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:26:03AM +0100, Ian Jones wrote:

>
> Are there any plans for squid to work with NDS authentication now that
> edirectory for linux is out?
>
> ie. working in a similar way to Bordermanager
>

Already does, in principle.

+ e-Directory supports LDAP (natively, if Novell are to be believed)

+ Squid supports basic proxy auth through auth modules.

+ An LDAP auth module exists.

hence

+ Use the LDAP auth module against e-Directory to integrated with NDS.

Of course, the extent to which this works will depend on how you need to bind
to the (e) directory and if the current LDAP module supports that method.
Should be trivial to modify it.

Chris

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