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

[Terry Henderson]

You could use IPCop

On 1/11/07, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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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> May be obvious but don't forget to check the features of your DSL/cable
> "router/firewall" to see if they may be of any help.
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