Auth Plug-Ins

These auth plugins provide various kinds of user (or computer) authentication or authorization. Normally all that's needed is to enable/disable (uncomment/comment) them, which can be done via the "plugins" tab in the main config editing task window. (The order of their listing is important. But the config file already lists these plugins in the only reasonable order, so no ability to change the order is included here.)

Auth methods can be categorized as follows:

Each plugin has a config of its own. In most cases these configs never need to be changed at all, (The one exception is in some cases detailed editing of the ipgroups file that's subsidiary to the IP auth plugin will be necessary.) If one of the configs does need to be changed, you can access the config file for editing through the plugin config editing tool.

Some of the options may say #!! Not compiled !!. If so, no config combination can ever enable any of these options on your system. To make such options available, you must get both a DansGuardian executable that includes support for the option and config files that match it. One way to do this is to rebuild DansGuardian from source. Rebuilding includes running ./configure, compiling, linking, and installing; it should not be undertaken lightly.


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