auth_policy in a non-authenticating proxy chain

Peter Mogensen apm at one.com
Thu Dec 14 11:33:47 EET 2017



On 2017-12-14 10:31, Sami Ketola wrote:
> 
>> On 14 Dec 2017, at 8.30, Peter Mogensen <apm at one.com> wrote:
>> However... since the proxy use "nopassword", ALL passdb lookups result
>> in "success", so the proxy will never report an authentication failure
>> to the authpolicy server.
> 
> 
> Why not authenticate the sessions at the proxy level already? Is there any
> reason not to do that?

Yes. Several.
This is not a new setup. It's an already well established setup and it's
unlikely that authentication can be moved to the proxy.

/Peter



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