[K12OSN] Proxy Help

jrichie@bible.edu jritchie at bible.edu
Wed Feb 16 22:00:59 UTC 2005


Yeah, but don't they have their own list of sites? I'm paying for the
subscription mostly. I cracked open the old one we recently replace and
have been playing with the idea of making it an OpenVPN box.

JSR/

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:25 -0600, Adam Melancon wrote:
> We just replaced Iprism with squidguard.  It got too expensive, plus
> iprism is really just squid running on freebsd.  I cracked open the
> hood and looked into it.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:51:37 -0500, Ritchie, Josiah <jritchie at bible.edu> wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > Though expensive, the iPrism from St. Bernard is a nice solution. I
> >  could help you getting it working in conjunction with an OpenLDAP
> >  server. It is easy and does not require individual machine changes. We
> >  use it on our student network where students bring in their own
> >  machines. You can only get around it with a tunnel. I'm not aware of any
> >  solutions that are able to resolve that issue.
> >  
> >  JSR/
> >  
> >  On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:26 -0500, Shawn Powers wrote:
> >  > Unfortunately, I can't think of a *nice* way to do this, but perhaps
> >  > someone else knows:
> >  >
> >  > Due to recent abuse, I need to switch to authenticated proxying for web
> >  > access in our district.  I've done this in years past, but it involved
> >  > touching every computer.  Ugh.
> >  >
> >  > Does anyone have any ideas regarding tracking user web use, while using
> >  > a transparent proxy?  I'm open for any idea.  I *have* gotten identd to
> >  > authenticate, but ONLY if I enter the proxy info by hand.  Apparently
> >  > the identd requests aren't formed correctly to work in transparent proxy
> >  > mode.
> >  >
> >  > Anyway, anyone have any ideas?  What do you do?  Especially on my LTSP
> >  > servers, I'm not sure how to update everyone to use the proxy...
> >  > Tracking by IP is not a help there either, because everyone is on the
> >  > same computer...
> >  >
> >  > Has anyone done:
> >  >
> >  > 1) Web portal type authentication?  Does it work?  Does it break things?
> >  >
> >  > 2) Forced proxy prefs in firefox on LTSP?  If so, HOW?!?!
> >  >
> >  > 3) Any ideas for user tracking would be appreciated.
> >  >
> >  > Thanks,
> >  > -Shawn
> >  >
> >  >
> >  
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