[NTLUG:Discuss] Administration tool to restrict Firefox history erasing

[David Stanaway]

David Stanaway wrote:
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
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>> David Simmons wrote:
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>>> <snip> I need someway to restrict the erasing of history (within Firefox) from a few machines.
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>>> Googling brings up pages and pages of ways to erase
>>> your history...but not ways to stop people from erasing.
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>>> Why would I want to do this you may ask?  Because I have kids....grin
>>>
>>> Any ideas other than having to setup specific accounts for the
>>> kids and restrict those accounts would be helpful.
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>> Rather than being 'reactive', be proactive.   http://www.dansguardian.org
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> I second dansguardian it is a nice tool, and you can just look at the 
> denied log so you are not being too invasive in what you see.
> It also filters authenticated sessions etc as it is a proxy so it does a 
> better job than looking at the history.
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You can also have it in passive mode, so it doesn't actually block 
anything, but logs inappropriate access, also plugs in to clamav to give 
you some virus protection too.