Re: [squid-users] Authentication from PPP

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Yosi Greenfield wrote:

> Is it possible to automatically authenticate users based
> on their ppp login, so that ppp dialup users are automatically
> identified and don't have to log in again?

Not easily by standard means, but if your PPP server (or the
authentication server used by your PPP server) provides means where an
application can query who the user is who has IP x then this can be
integrated into Squid via the external_acl directives.

Regards
Henrik