Topic: Forcing Proxy Use. Transproxy work with pam_auth????

[Dan Thomas]

Hello, I'm using e-smith 4.1.2 and have set up squid to use the pam authentication so that access to the proxy is dependent on a username and password. I've also set squidguard to block unacceptable sites. I need to force users' browsers to use the proxy rather than accessing the internet directly. I've read somewhere that using transproxy.noarch.rpm (to force connection through proxy) doesn't work when pam_auth is used. Is this true? If it is, is there another way of forcing proxy use? Thanks in advance.

[Tim Litwiller]

Dan, I have heard and even repeated that same thing, but have not tested it. If you have the time, could you test it and let us know how it goes?

[Dan Thomas]

It seems to work in that setting mozilla to use direct internet connection doesn't seem able to get the webpage (although my server's modem lights indicate that the webpage is being fetched by squid).
But I'm sure I've read somewhere (wish I know where) something along the lines of "using transproxy with authentication won't work.  It'll appear to work but doesn't"
Think it was in a config file somewhere.  I'll have to find it.

[Patrick Schepers]

It is true that PAM_AUTH in combination with Tranproxy won't work (see manual squid).

Where can I download pam_auth.tar.gz

thanks