Allow User To Authenticate and Bypass Filter

[Willo]

Hi Guys,

I'm very new to PFSense and I'm having some issues navigating some finer grained details.  I have a SquidGuard web filter rule enabled and all working well.  It's mainly for the younger guests of the house and I'd like to be able to authenticate and bypass or continue through the filter.

I've seen settings to exclude IP's, but I need it for users.

Any clues?

Cheers

Willo

[chris4916]

Well… this is pretty straightforward... but requires that you authenticate users.
Which means not transparent proxy.
Then you can easily have rules for either users of better, group of users allowed to access what could be denied to other groups (i.e. kids)

[rjcrowder]

I did something similar to what you are describing for Dansguardian. See this thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=68872.msg376980#msg376980

It's a lot of custom work - but you could do the same approach for squidguard…

[Willo]

@chris4916:

Well… this is pretty straightforward... but requires that you authenticate users.
Which means not transparent proxy.
Then you can easily have rules for either users of better, group of users allowed to access what could be denied to other groups (i.e. kids)

@rjcrowder:

I did something similar to what you are describing for Dansguardian. See this thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=68872.msg376980#msg376980

It's a lot of custom work - but you could do the same approach for squidguard…

Thanks heaps for the replies.  @rjcrowder, too much custom work isn't an option unfortunately, if things break it's admin overhead I don't have the time for :(

@chris4916, I'm wondering if the authentication couldn't be "transparent" by authenticating to either a local user database or AD?  So when they browse, it silently authenticates in the background?

I've come off a Fortigate appliance to PFSense and in their case, if the page was filtered there was an override feature allowing you to enter your username and password and if you were allowed you could proceed based on credentials.

Thoughts..

[chris4916]

@Willo:

@chris4916, I'm wondering if the authentication couldn't be "transparent" by authenticating to either a local user database or AD?  So when they browse, it silently authenticates in the background?

This wording is quite confusing especially when topic is proxy. Avoid "transparent authentication" wording, IMHO  ;)

This said, technically, yes you can enable SSO (single sign on) at browser level and configure Squid (and your browser) to support Kerberos (because SSO is Kerberos based) but be aware that:

1 - this is an extra level of complexity. Perhaps not the one to start with
2 - Behaviour differs depending on browsers
3 - This works with Squid / Squidguard but I don't know if pfSense packages allows such configuration
4 - last but not least, this means to have Kerberos domain configured (and used). This is often achieved with Windows domain.

I would suggest that you not try to achieve everything from scratch in one shot.

Start with authentication and filter then once this works, you can think about changing your authentication mechanism and move to SSO