Squid on IPFire offers five different authentication methods for the configuration via the web interface. Hereby the Local Authentication is Squid-internal, the other authentication options, however, are controlled by an external server.
| Local Authentication | This is explains Squid's internal authentication on IPFire | |
| Ident Authentication | User authentication with identd | |
| LDAP Authentication | User authentication with a LDAP Server | |
| RADIUS Authentication | User authentication with a RADIUS Server |
Note for Germany
Some of the respective laws and paragraphs can be found here: TKÜMV, BDSG, LDSG, TKG, DSVO, TMG.