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

[Leroy Tennison]

Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> "David Simmons" writes:
> - ok..ok..I know this comes straight from the BAFH handbook...but I need
> - someway to restrict the erasing of history (within Firefox) from a few
> - machines.
>
> 	No ideas on this topick.
>
> - Any ideas other than having to setup specific accounts for the
> - kids and restrict those accounts would be helpful.
>
> 	Why not give the kids their own login accounts?  And
> make sure they use them?  Teaches responsiliblity and security.
>
> 	As for the browsing history, you'd probably be best off
> configuring an HTTP proxy (squid and tinyproxy come to mine),
> and make sure they can't go out of the network without going
> through the proxy.
>
> 	That'll give you logs of all the URL's visited, and if
> using squid, may cut the bandwidth used for some commonly
> visited sites.
>
> --
> Eric Schnoebelen		eric at cirr.com		http://www.cirr.com
>     "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming." 
> 							-- C.A.R. Hoare
>
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