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> I don't know how it is with other types of authentication, but for pwd 
> authentication, the client is authenticated also in slaves. That means 
> that if the client is authenticated on manager node and redirected to 
> other, he has to authenitcate again, becase that node doesn't know that 
> the user has already been authenticated on manager node. Additionally, in 
> pwd based authentication, the user can have granted access to bounded 
> number of nodes (slaves) .
Even for password authentication, generally there is no need to configure 
authentication on the redirector. That way you avoid the double 
authentication. You can still use the same config file. Just put an "if" 
around the security directives.

Andy