[squid-users] Re: Authentication help (fwd)

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: 08 May 2003 14:41:15 +0200

tor 2003-05-08 klockan 13.46 skrev Jigar Raval:
> Hello,
>
> I have configured squid for user authentication before internet access
> using webmin tool. I have one problem is that I want to automatically
> logoff the idel user i.e. user open the site and keep it open but not
> doing anything. I want to do it after 10minutes.
> I am using NCSA as authentication program.
>
> What should I do ?

You need to reconfigure the browser to automatically log off the user
when idle.

There is nothing Squid can do about this. The browser logs in to Squid
on each and every request, the only reason why you do not see login
prompts all the time is because the browser remembers the login+password
for you for a unspecified period of time up to the browser.

Both MSIE and Mozilla have settings to automatically forget the
login+password after certain inactivity IIRC. For MSIE the setting is
somewhat hidden in the registry, for Mozilla I do not know.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 06:41:55 MDT

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