[TriLUG] limiting Internet access with squid?

[Brian Henning]

If you have a machine with iptables, you can set up squid on a
nonstandard port, and have iptables forward all outbound requests on
port 80 to Squid's port.  That too can be worked around, but not as
easily as a browser proxy setting.  It's what I resorted to in my last
place of employment to lock out myspace and porn.

~Brian 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Greg Brown
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:18 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: [TriLUG] limiting Internet access with squid?

Problem: I have a client with a small network at a resturant.  His
computer is XP Home so it can't be locked and he would like to restrict
Internet access (when he isn't there his employees are surfing the web
on the office computer, going to myspace.com, crap like that.  Can squid
be set up block all request on port 80 and force users to authenticate
before passing them along?  What I'd like is for Paul to have
unrestricted access to the Internet but his employees to be blocked from
going outbound.

Is this possible with squid?  If not, do you have any other ideas?

Greg
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