[K12OSN] Squid Question

[Peter Hartmann]

Hey Jim,
did you ever find a solution that met all your requirements?
specifically I'm wondering if you found something  that would use
different filtering rules based on user/group (not just
filter/not-filter).


Thanks,
Peter Hartmann

On 3/24/05, Jim Kronebusch <jim at winonacotter.org> wrote:
> > Feel free to use the how-to I wrote up for our library system
> > here in louisiana to get some info. It contains the step by
> > step instructions on how I setup squidguard to replace our
> > Iprism web filter.
> > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/sysadminsite/squidguard/
> > It may have some information that could help out in any way
> > you choose to go.
>
> I've used IP Cop in the past with Dansguardian which worked fine.  But
> now I may be posed with a scenario that calls on a new solution.
>
> Next year I'll have a K12LTSP box with SAMBA/LDAP setup to run
> authentication for Linux Terminals, OSX, and Windows 2000/XP.
> Everything will require logins based on users from the SAMBA/LDAP setup.
> Now as far as content filtering goes we are looking towards a system
> that will require users to login before accessing the internet at all
> (or at least pull the current user from the machine).  Then I need it to
> hand out custom filtering based off the user group they are assinged to
> in the SAMBA/LDAP.  So if student1 logs into any machine on campus
> before they can browse any page on the internet they either login as
> student1 or the content filter pulls the information from the machine
> and automatically knows student1 is logged in.  Then I need it to look
> at student1 and see they are in the Students group and hand out the
> filtering rules that apply to the Students group.  Or if teacher1 logs
> in hand out rules for the Teacher group, etc.
>
> Then if at all possible I want the ability to break down logs by user
> and find out each specific users activity.  I may need to know only
> attempts to access offending sites, but I may need to be able to find
> out every site student1 accessed on a given day.
>
> If anyone has a solution that provides this please let me know.  I don't
> really care what distribution it is based off of or what hardware
> requirements are.  I just want a Open Source solution that works.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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