[squid-users] ident lookups & squid

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Hi Everyone,

Just quickly, squid rocks my world and is the best thing that ever
happpened to our proxys!!!!!!! we now have 8 running accross our entire
company and they hummmmmmm :)

One small issue I have is that I have an ident server running on all client
workstations that the squid machine make a request to and then compares it
to a text list of users.

At times the user is prompted for a password as it falls back to a ldap
authentication method if it does not get a response from a ident server on
the clients workstation, this seems to happen when a site is loaded that
has a lot of small pics and it seems the ident server is not keeping up.

1: Does anyone know of a good ident server for win32 that will run as a
service?

2: Is there anyway to make squid handle this and not prompt for a
username/password.

Here is the config lines I have.

ACL definitions

# this accepts a valid username/password from the allowed webusers
acl NDSAUTH proxy_auth "/usr/local/etc/WEBUSERS"

# identd "authentication"
acl WEBGROUP ident "/usr/local/etc/WEBUSERS"

ACLS

# try ident lookup and member of WEBUSERS
http_access allow WEBGROUP
# try matching agains LDAP username/password and member of WEBUSERS
http_access allow NDSAUTH
# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
http_access deny all

Thanks in advance.... keep up the good work..

Regards,
Richard Fuser
Firewall & UNIX Systems Administrator

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