Re: [squid-users] can squid perform authentication without prompting users for usernames and passwds ?

Thanks a lot for the answer...here come two additionnal questions and one
explanation.

but what do you mean by "having a domain" ?

I thought people were using ntlm authentication for this purpose (I mean not
being prompted for password). I guess I don't understand properly the benefits
of using such a scheme.
Could you just tell me in a few words what would be the benefits of using the
ntlm authentication scheme ?

About the way ntlm authentication was performed with border manager:
we had a program "Novell Client Trust" that communicated with the Border
Manager Proxy, supplying it with the logon information we had entered when
logging into SDS2000. Then if this information corresponds to what Border
Manager has in its text file of authorised users (which file is built by
exporting the list of Lotus Notes authorised users), then access to the
Internet is allowed.

Quoting Robert Collins <robertc@squid-cache.org>:

> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:58, reymc@eurecom.fr wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I used to have a Border Manager proxy that could perform authentication
> without
> > explicitly asking the users to enter username and password.
> >
> > Is there any way of having this kind of authentication with the squid
> proxy. Is
> > ntlm a solution for this ?
>
> Unless you have a domain, no.
>
> If someone where to document - legally - the Novell NLM interface
> specification that notified bordermanager of user details, then another
> user /developer here could implement a module to squid to use it. At the
> moment, it's simply a black box that we know nothing about.
>
> Rob
> --
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>

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