I understand ... is there some other way to provide soas with whitelist based internet access?
Raffael 2010/6/19 Peter Robinson <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Raffael Reichelt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I had a talk with sebastian at linuxtag about including local squid >> with a whitelist in soas. I do not know how others thinking about this >> but I am generally concerned about giving unlimited internet access to >> the children. This might be different in a schoolserver/XO >> environment, but if you want to have a widely spread soas deployment >> it should be available at least as an option. >> >> Unfortunately there are no constantly maintained whitelists available >> - I talked to the people of "Kinder im Netz" - a german organisation >> maintaining a whitelist - but they have legal/licence concerns opening >> the whitelist to other software beside their own (propietary) windows >> software. > > Not in the SoaS image. SoaS is designed to run on netbooks, squid is a > daemon that should run on a server, it also creates a massive > directory structure that will cause issues on liveUSB keys and not > really run at all on a live cd. If the parents/teachers that are > giving SoaS to their children want to restrict the access to the net > they can do it via their internet connection or turn on the child safe > internet option that just about all ISPs provide. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
