* [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
@ 2008-11-08 17:36 Stroller
2008-11-08 20:00 ` Florian Philipp
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From: Stroller @ 2008-11-08 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi there,
Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small office
of a dozen employees?
I'd assume Squid + Google-it-you-lazy-git, but there are a couple of
requirements that make my request a little unusual.
Firstly, instead of simply blocking pr0n & allowing everything else,
the site primarily wants to block Hotmail & Facebook.
I assume that what this _really means_ is that they want to block
everything by default and add a whitelist of work-related sites (it's
an estate agent, so http://rightmove.co.uk would be on the whitelist,
for instance).
Secondly, they want to perform the blocking for most of the day, but
relax the restrictions between 11am - 11:15am & 1pm - 2pm.
And thirdly, the bosses want to be excluded from the filtering. One
obvious way to do this is filtering by their MAC or IP address - none
of the staff are geek enough to get around this but nevertheless it's
a bit clumsy & requires maintenance if the boss gets a new laptop.
So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a
message "this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter
category [pr0n|frivolous]; if you would like to see it anyway, please
enter your username & password". I used to work at a place that
displayed a similar message & allowed with a single click a user to
submit to the admin websites that had been blacklisted in error; so I
am sure something like this is possible, I just don't know if it's
available in open-source.
Thanks in advance,
Stroller.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
2008-11-08 17:36 [gentoo-user] Office web filtering Stroller
@ 2008-11-08 20:00 ` Florian Philipp
2008-11-08 22:14 ` Stroller
2008-11-08 20:16 ` Amar Cosic
2008-11-22 9:36 ` Brett Freer
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Florian Philipp @ 2008-11-08 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Stroller schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small office of
> a dozen employees?
>
[...]
> So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a message
> "this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter category
> [pr0n|frivolous]; if you would like to see it anyway, please enter your
> username & password". I used to work at a place that displayed a similar
> message & allowed with a single click a user to submit to the admin
> websites that had been blacklisted in error; so I am sure something like
> this is possible, I just don't know if it's available in open-source.
>
DansGuardian (in portage) offers user authentication via NTLM and other
mechanisms [1]. I assume it also offers all the other features you want
although I never used it.
[1]
http://contentfilter.futuragts.com/wiki/doku.php?id=user_identification_methods
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
2008-11-08 17:36 [gentoo-user] Office web filtering Stroller
2008-11-08 20:00 ` Florian Philipp
@ 2008-11-08 20:16 ` Amar Cosic
2008-11-08 22:13 ` Stroller
2008-11-22 9:36 ` Brett Freer
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Amar Cosic @ 2008-11-08 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small office of a
> dozen employees?
>
> I'd assume Squid + Google-it-you-lazy-git, but there are a couple of
> requirements that make my request a little unusual.
>
> Firstly, instead of simply blocking pr0n & allowing everything else, the
> site primarily wants to block Hotmail & Facebook.
>
> I assume that what this _really means_ is that they want to block
> everything by default and add a whitelist of work-related sites (it's an
> estate agent, so http://rightmove.co.uk would be on the whitelist, for
> instance).
>
> Secondly, they want to perform the blocking for most of the day, but relax
> the restrictions between 11am - 11:15am & 1pm - 2pm.
>
> And thirdly, the bosses want to be excluded from the filtering. One obvious
> way to do this is filtering by their MAC or IP address - none of the staff
> are geek enough to get around this but nevertheless it's a bit clumsy &
> requires maintenance if the boss gets a new laptop.
>
> So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a message
> "this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter category
> [pr0n|frivolous]; if you would like to see it anyway, please enter your
> username & password". I used to work at a place that displayed a similar
> message & allowed with a single click a user to submit to the admin websites
> that had been blacklisted in error; so I am sure something like this is
> possible, I just don't know if it's available in open-source.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
I use opendns.com at work. HTH
--
Amar Ćosić
amar.cosic@gmail.com
amar@amar.ba
+38761240095
http://www.amar.ba
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
2008-11-08 20:16 ` Amar Cosic
@ 2008-11-08 22:13 ` Stroller
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2008-11-08 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 8 Nov 2008, at 20:16, Amar Cosic wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
> > wrote:
>> ...
>> So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a
>> message "this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter
>> category [pr0n|frivolous]; if you would like to see it anyway,
>> please enter your username & password". I used to work at a place
>> that displayed a similar message & allowed with a single click a
>> user to submit to the admin websites that had been blacklisted in
>> error; so I am sure something like this is possible, I just don't
>> know if it's available in open-source.
>
> I use opendns.com at work. HTH
This doesn't easily fulfil the requirement to assign different
browsing rights to different users (never mind the ones to filter non-
porn sites or enable those sites at different times).
Thanks, though.
Stroller.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
2008-11-08 20:00 ` Florian Philipp
@ 2008-11-08 22:14 ` Stroller
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2008-11-08 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 8 Nov 2008, at 20:00, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Stroller schrieb:
>> ...
>> Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small
>> office of
>> a dozen employees?
>>
> [...]
>> So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a
>> message
>> "this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter category
>> [pr0n|frivolous]; if you would like to see it anyway, please enter
>> your
>> username & password". I used to work at a place that displayed a
>> similar
>> message & allowed with a single click a user to submit to the admin
>> websites that had been blacklisted in error; so I am sure something
>> like
>> this is possible, I just don't know if it's available in open-source.
>>
> DansGuardian (in portage) offers user authentication via NTLM and
> other
> mechanisms [1]. I assume it also offers all the other features you
> want
> although I never used it.
>
> [1]
> http://contentfilter.futuragts.com/wiki/doku.php?id=user_identification_methods
This looks GREAT! Thanks!
It'll take me a day or two to have time to look at this properly,
though, so in the meantime I'd still welcome for comparison purposes
any other suggestions.
Stroller.
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* RE: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
2008-11-08 17:36 [gentoo-user] Office web filtering Stroller
2008-11-08 20:00 ` Florian Philipp
2008-11-08 20:16 ` Amar Cosic
@ 2008-11-22 9:36 ` Brett Freer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Brett Freer @ 2008-11-22 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi Stroller,
I have found www.opendns.com to be a really good solution. However, it
will be blanket cover for the whole lan and you won't be able to
implement the time-based, or the user-based exceptions.
Kind regards
Brett Freer
-----Original Message-----
From: Stroller [mailto:stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, 9 November 2008 4:37 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering
Hi there,
Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small office of
a dozen employees?
I'd assume Squid + Google-it-you-lazy-git, but there are a couple of
requirements that make my request a little unusual.
Firstly, instead of simply blocking pr0n & allowing everything else, the
site primarily wants to block Hotmail & Facebook.
I assume that what this _really means_ is that they want to block
everything by default and add a whitelist of work-related sites (it's an
estate agent, so http://rightmove.co.uk would be on the whitelist, for
instance).
Secondly, they want to perform the blocking for most of the day, but
relax the restrictions between 11am - 11:15am & 1pm - 2pm.
And thirdly, the bosses want to be excluded from the filtering. One
obvious way to do this is filtering by their MAC or IP address - none of
the staff are geek enough to get around this but nevertheless it's a bit
clumsy & requires maintenance if the boss gets a new laptop.
So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a message
"this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter category
[pr0n|frivolous]; if you would like to see it anyway, please enter your
username & password". I used to work at a place that displayed a similar
message & allowed with a single click a user to submit to the admin
websites that had been blacklisted in error; so I am sure something like
this is possible, I just don't know if it's available in open-source.
Thanks in advance,
Stroller.
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