Squid and squidguard. I have several installs of this at government locations that are used in just this fashion.
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > brandon said: > upgrade everyone to xp or better linux and then take away their rights to > install other software > > Can't be done. At least not yet. I am stuck with the desktops they have > in place at least until Q2 05. > > brandon said; > ...also put have your client put a policy in place that > any non-business related apps will result in getting fired. > > I am working on crafting this document now. > > brandon said: > As far as the web surfing...put in squid and make people authenticate to the > squid then you can run all kinds of reports showing what they have been > surfing. Before she can monitor any of these things legally they must make > everyone sign some type of policy that states that they can monitor everything > employees do, otherwise they are could get sued for evation of privacy. > > Are you sure about that? I have to check with my attorney but I was fairly > certain that, at least for web surfing, the Intenet connection is a company > resource and usage of that resource can be controlled by the company. As > far as desktops I was also under the impression that since these were company > resources there was no "right to privacy" on a device which was not owned by > the user. I was under the impression that most of the documents you are made > to sign were just "double-plus CYA" types of things. > > I like the authenticated squid server, though. > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
