Topic: Authenticate users before they can use the internet

[Baronne]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to authenticate users before they can access the internet. For example, when they try access the internet using their browser, they are prompted for a username & password first or they simply log on via a webpage.

I did enquire about a wireless gateway once and someone posted me info on this, but is there something which sits as a non-wireless gateway for users wishing to access the internet?

Is this possible? Is it a proxy thing? Scuze me - I'm a bit of a numpty on this one....


thanks

Baronne.

[Patrick Schepers]

try e-smith-squid.

You can download it from:

http://e-smith.dyndns.org/

It works fine for me

Cheers

[Rob Wellesley]

and

http://www.pagefault.org/e-smith/contrib/index.html#proxyauth

and

http://www.drbig.co.uk/sdownload/index.php?op=showfiles&catid=17