On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, markcodes <codesmark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I recently setup a working squid proxy thru our ubuntu 12 server for testing > in a possible future setup for our IT system. My boss would like all staff > using the internet to have their pc's connected to this squid proxy server. > Since my boss want an IP ONLY authentication, and since I dont have any idea > about perl or bash scripting, can anyone point me into the right direction? I think you are confusing "authentication" with "access control". > I have a mysql server running and I can connect to it using the proxy > server. The database is sample_db, table name is user_check, column for ip > is user_ip. I have some poorly written perl script at hand which is I think > very wrong. I haven't tested this, but try: acl allowed_src src "/etc/squid/allowed_src.txt" http_access allow allowed_src http_access deny all If you still want to go ahead with the poorly written perl thing, read this: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/external_acl_type/ Alan