[K12OSN] Proxy Help

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Thu Feb 17 10:38:40 UTC 2005


Re: [K12OSN] Proxy HelpHow about using something like Censornet (www.censornet.com) we use it for all our clients and the amount on mamagment it gives you is amazing. Also NO COST it's based around Debian and will authenticate against Samba with no problems. The only bit we pay for is the Blacklist Update but at £100 a year that's a small price to pay.

If you'd like more info feel free to mail me off list.

Brian Chivers
Portsmouth College
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ritchie, Josiah 
  To: Support list for opensource software in schools. 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Proxy Help


  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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