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Users/Groups allowed to bypass blocking

Hi,

I have a sophos virtual sophos utm 9. It's joined the domain. I have set up a authentication server and single sign on.
I'm using web protection in standard mode with active directory sso.
Now when i use the Users/Groups allowed to bypass blocking for the group 'domain admins' to bypass any category filtering, it doens't work.

When a domain admin try to access a forbidden category I would assume because it's allowed to bypass he could still reach a certain website

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0 apijnappels over 11 years ago

I believe the site will still be blocked, but a button should appear in the blocked message for bypassing the block.
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0 joepvg over 11 years ago

The only button I see is, 'Unblock URL (will be logged) and then I have to login and provide a reason. Is this what you mean?
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0 joepvg over 11 years ago

So I have created a Exception, to skip url filtering for the domain admins. This works as well.
But I still expected the bypass blocking feature to do the same.
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0 PeterRL over 11 years ago

Hi joepvg,

I think that the behaviour that you are reporting it´s the expected one. From the UTM user manual:

"Users/Groups allowed to bypass blocking: If you want to give certain users or
groups the permission to access pages which are blocked by default, add them to this
drag-and-drop box. Subsequently, blocked pages will contain a button called Unblock URL."
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