Im trying to conjure up a replacement to novell border manager + client trust for transpartent auth in a novell environment. there are some squid proxy auth things it seems, however they require that the user be prompted to enter a user+pass... not really ideal. instead users should not have to think about logging on. i know ident can be spoofed but for this test its not a huge issue so got the following to work on squid 2.5 stable 5: external_acl_type ldap_lookup ttl=120 %IDENT /tmp/ldaplookup.pl acl group1 external ldap_lookup http_access allow group1 where /tmp/ldaplookup.pl is #!/usr/bin/perl $|=1; while ( 1 == 1 ) { $input = <STDIN>; chomp($input); open LDAPSEARCH, 'ldapsearch -LLLxh server "(cn=Internet)" member |' or die "Can't ldapsearch :$!"; $found = 0; $fullusername = ''; while (<LDAPSEARCH>) { #print "$_"; if ($_ =~ /cn=$input,/i) { $found = 1; /member: (.*)/i; $fullusername = $1; last; }; } if ($found == 0){ print 'ERR ERROR="'.$input.' not a valid internet user"'."\n"; } else { print 'OK USER="'.$fullusername.' authorized internet user"'."\n"; }; }; and my client is running http://ftp.tdcnorge.no/pub/windows/Identd/Identd-1.1.0.zip everything works except the ttl isnt as I thought... eg: my client tries to hit a page, squid ident requests my client, which responds, then squid uses my script to see if that user name is in the "internet" group as retured from my ldap search. if the users in the group the page is served, if not, they get access denied. so my question is this... if i imediately shut down my identd on my client, squid starts denying access immediately. a net sniff shows that squid is doing an ident query for every access request. I would have expected with the ttl=120 that squid wouldnt query until 2 minutes later. this seems like a lot of needless ident traffic and when i start piling on users ill be doing more ident and ldap lookups than web proxying. I suppose I just misunderstand the ttl option. is there anyway to get squid to only ask for this ident auth at some specified timeout and not for every page request? any help would be greatly appreciated.