AFAIK - NO - it is waaaaaaaaay to simple to work like that. Squid is only a cache. You could redirect an user to a login site with your firewall script, after he logs in, you could redirect him to squid ( at least his http traffic ). But again AFAIK there is no radius client module for squid. Nor it is planned in a way you want it.

Regards,

Edvin

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Hello,

I'm very new to free raduis and would like to know if it will run with squid proxy server. If so how would this work? What I am looking to do is to allow users to access the internet via the transparent squid proxy for limited time sessions. Eg. a user who wishes to use the system would be greeted by a web page asking for a code. The code (which they would get from the system admin) would grant them access for 1 hour. Can this be done using FreeRadius and Squid?

Sean.

Actually, I have tested squid using a radius plugin before to talk to freeradius. It worked for me then, but we never used it and it was also years ago. http://www.squid-cache.org/related-software.html There are a few radius modules in there, you might want to give one shot. The second one seems to still be active. I don't know about a time limit however and I don't really know much about squid to help. This wifi entry talks about using authentication with squid, it might help you. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/faq/authentication