Using Linux on School Network
I am looking into taking a job at a UK Secondary school. Currently the system is fully Windows Based, with a mixture of windows 95/98/NT/2000 clients and NT & 2000 servers. The main problem they have is security and ensuring that only suitable applications can be accesssed i.e. the internet is not always available. Now I've looked at Squid and it seems to provide useful controlling roles, however are there anyother proxies that offer better or similar authentication rules. What Other available software options are ideal for securing or generally running and maintaining a Windows network, but using a SuSE Linux machine. Adam
Adam Leach wrote:
I am looking into taking a job at a UK Secondary school. Currently the system is fully Windows Based, with a mixture of windows 95/98/NT/2000 clients and NT & 2000 servers.
The main problem they have is security and ensuring that only suitable applications can be accesssed i.e. the internet is not always available.
Now I've looked at Squid and it seems to provide useful controlling roles, however are there anyother proxies that offer better or similar authentication rules.
I suspect that what you are looking for is squidguard, which comes on the SuSE disks. It needs some configuration to make it work and is not yet as easy to set up as you'd like. Essentially, it uses a feature of squid that allows squid to ask another program to check requests and deny them if they're unsuitable. Squidguard is the other program and uses blacklists that you can control. Squidguard can also be configured to make the web inaccessible at different times of day. -- JDL
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 17:54, John Lamb wrote:
Adam Leach wrote:
I am looking into taking a job at a UK Secondary school
We just converted our school from 2000 and 98 to 8.1. Like the whole lot.Squidguard is ok up to a point but it's very hard to cover all possibilities with it. Unless you've hours to spare going into acl's take the chalk face advice of pulling out the rj45 from your router during lesson time. When you do have the time, take the sites to blacklist from /var/log/squid/access.log. When a blacklisted site is attempted, make sure everyone knows about it by redirecting to a very prominent page with a suitable message. A sound also helps to draw your and all other student's attention to the culprit. We'd like to share experiences in this area with as many others as possible to try to get Linux into the secondary education arena and not just as a samba server. Steve.
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Adam Leach wrote:
I am looking into taking a job at a UK Secondary school
We just converted our school from 2000 and 98 to 8.1. Like the whole lot.Squidguard is ok up to a point... <snip> Instead of SquidGuard, try using DansGuardian, which supports content filtering in addition to blacklists. In my own experiencce, DansGuardian is much better than SquidGuard. LW999 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
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