[K12OSN] Proxy Help

[Adam Melancon]

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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