> On 05/14/2012 06:39 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote: >>> It isn't clear if you are looking to provide your user with some >>> voluntary self-filtering or if your user wants to impose filtering on >>> others. >> >> Ah, apologies to everyone! (I was curious about the "political" >> statement). It is indeed *self* inflicted. The user is having trouble >> getting his work done and finds his own behaviour online detrimental to >> his work process. >> >>> People gave you ideas about the latter. For the former there >>> are various browser plugins that your user can install to self-manage >>> their own filtering. For example Chrome's "Personal Blocklist" >>> extension. Although the emphasis there looks to be default-allow >>> rather >>> than default-deny. >> >> I figured if the user has issues to the point of requesting that I >> whitelist websites he may not find a plugin for browsers useful (i.e. >> easy to circumvent), however, I did encounter these options as well in >> my google searches so I will suggest this as an option. >> >> Thanks everyone! >> -Chris > > hello Chris, > > you can try squid/squidguard or dansguardian, but, again, the user can > circumvent the proxy setting in his browser if this isn't enforced > (transparent proxy) > > Gilberto During the adaptation of SL for russian school education we had the same problem -- providing of porno or terrorist-oriented materials for child is a crime in Russia. Our solution -- a lot of packages for setting and managing firewall protected internal network and infrastructure settings for auto-detect proxy (SQUID) included to our specialized school distro -- NauLinux. SQUID connect to schools LDAP users/group DB with a different access polices for different user groups (teachers and pupils, for ex.). White list managed by some web-interfaces: more simple -- just for uploading list of educational resources placed in text file, and advanced interface for full accepting/rejecting control. --Oleg