[ILUG] Alternative to Cisco's Authentication Proxy

[bobb]

max power hath declared on Friday the 27 day of February 2004  :-:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know of a similar system to cisco's authtentication proxy
> (http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/secur_c/scprt3/scdauthp.htm#1001067)
> for linux?   We want to allow roaming users at customer sites to access an
> internal webserver.   We do not want to allow direct access to this
> webserver from the outside.

> We are using iptables on our firewall..

Don't think netfilter can do per user authentication (yet?)...


I would probably come from the other angle and usd squid with proxy_auth
Just have to let squid be externally accessable though the firewall...

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-19.html#configuring-proxy-auth

- bobb
 
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