Free Radius and Squid

[Dusty Doris]

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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