RE: Firewalls in a K-12 [More info from me]

From: Taiss Quartapa (xntrek@iprimus.com.au)
Date: 08/22/01


From: "Taiss Quartapa" <xntrek@iprimus.com.au>
To: "'Michael Boman'" <michael@ayeka.dyndns.org>, "'kath'" <kath@kathweb.net>, <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: Firewalls in a K-12 [More info from me]
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:38:32 +1000
Message-ID: <003701c12a9a$6779cbd0$8b2d32d2@home.alchemist.id>

On Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:01, Michael Boman wrote:

>If you use Squid (MS probably have this functionality as well) you can
>enable proxy password, so the user needs to login to squid before surfing.
>Kinda cool, if you like the Big Brother stuff.

I don't believe that MS Proxy does that (although if I'm wrong - can someone
let me know how?).

However, with squid you can do the following:

- Assign username/password access to use the proxy : this can be achieved by
htaccess style password lists or (my favourite) via PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules). Using PAM, you can set up access to NIS, SAMBA,
NT/2000 or even Novell.
- Put in SquidGuard (www.squidguard.org). It plugs in under the redirector
section of squid.conf and allows you to put in ACLs in a variety of fashions
(such as user lists, sites that can/can't be accessed) and works quite well.
- Using webalizer, you can do a full analysis of squids logs to view
accessed sites, user names, which IPs they've originated from, etc.

This sort of solution really takes the cake from this point of view,
although it is very big brotherish.

Kind Regards,

Taiss Quartapa

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