Matthew Juneau
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:03:30 -0700
I know this is something that's been discussed a number of times, but I think I may have finally found something resembling (or approaching resembling?) a working solution.
Enough superlatives and greyness in that for you? =) Anyways, I stumbled across a couple ubuntuforums threads/posts discussing using Dan's Guardian with tinyproxy: (squid is overkill.) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207008 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1222237 I've tested it out on a Hardy VM, and it seems to work fairly well. It's transparent, which means you don't have to specify a proxy in the browser. It's global, so it works for all users. I do have some concerns however... The installation and configuration doesn't bother me so much. We could do that at the shop. Updating blacklists doesn't bother me so much either. The Multnomah Education Service District in Oregon maintains a blacklist [http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/ ] and we could easily whip up a script to do all the magic and schedule it in cron. No, what worries me is if a parent wants something in particular (black|white)listed... Because this would normally require editing a text file, which as we all know, is the bane of Linux's existence. ;) Oh yeah, and restarting the daemon. There appears to have been at one time a Dan's Guardian module for webmin, but it's mostly MIA now. I've not seen much in the way of a GUI either. Questions? Comments? Snide remarks? m. :wq!