Re: [squid-users] logging authenticated users

Mrvka

You might want to take a look at a squid reporting tool called sarg. It's quite
good. http://web.onda.com.br/orso/

Ravi.

> ok.
>
> i got from many sides the info not to proceed with this project.
> i'll explain it to my boss and he has to agree with me.
> i will count the amount of transmitted bytes from that user
> and that should be enough.
>
> thanks for help so far...
> Andreas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus.Rietzler@rzf.fin-nrw.de
> [mailto:Markus.Rietzler@rzf.fin-nrw.de]
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:55 PM
> To: mrv@tuev-a.at; hermann.strassner@hama.de
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: AW: [squid-users] logging authenticated users
>
> there is no reasonable way to do this.
> how will you deal with things like this:
>
> i am loggin on to squid to start surfing the internet,
> i then receive a phone call, and try to solve a problem,
> the call lasts 30 minutes, i still was logged on the internet,
> i have minimized my browser window. so what will the stats say?
>
> i was surfing over 30 minutes. thats wrong (!) i only open a page
> and then i stopped surfing as i was to answer the phone call...
>
> you can have statistics what urls the users accessing (normally
> there should be a column username in the access.log of squid like
>
> 1029141505.270 9 123.45.67.89 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT/503 1225 GET http://foo/
> UID NONE/- text/html
>
> see UID. you can only say that at a certain time a certain user was
> accessing a page,
> but not how long does he looked on that page....
>
> Markus Rietzler
> * <rietzler_software/>
> * RZF NRW
> * Tel: 0211.4572-130
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Mrvka Andreas [mailto:mrv@tuev-a.at]
> Gesendet am: Montag, 12. August 2002 12:13
> An: Hermann Strassner
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Betreff: RE: [squid-users] logging authenticated users
>
> well, it seems that I have no other choise as to write an authentication
> routine which logs if a user enters username+pwd, stores it in a cookie
> and in a database and check every minute if the user is still surfing.
>
> or how should I check if the user is still online?
> why doesn't exist these external_auth?
> am I the only one how has such a problem?
>
> thankx for help.
> Andreas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hermann Strassner [mailto:hermann.strassner@hama.de]
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 11:04 AM
> To: Squid Mailinglist
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] logging authenticated users
>
> > i am worrying about logging the usernames in squid!
> > in my company i have to authenticate users and log them at the squid log
> > HOW LONG they surf! i need statistics.
>
> I think it is not possible the way you want. "surfing" is not a session with
> start and end, instead it is a line of single requests. In the log file you
> get the time of the requests. You can write a tool, that analyses the log
> file and takes the time of the first request as start and the time for the
> last request plus a timeout of for example 5 minutes as an end. So you have
> the times. But keep in Mind that some tools update automatically some pages
> or does check via Internet, for example MS Updater, so some employees surf
> 24 hours a day.
>
> Hermann
Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 14:01:08 MDT