I'm setting up a desktop for my niece and nephew, who are five and nine years old. It's important to their parents that their computer filter web content. What I was hoping I could do is this: 1) set up proxying on that station so that all web connections (80 and 443 at least) pass through a filtering proxy, while netfilter/iptables prevents outgoing connections that circumvent the proxy. 2) set up the filtering proxy to maintain a list of banned sites, as well as content-based filtering. 3) set up some kind of automated updates (hopefully yum) so that the banned site list and the banned content list are both updated automatically. I know that Dan's Guardian, in combination with Squid, can do this. But in a couple hours yesterday, I didn't make much progress beyond installing Dan's Guardian from the Dag repository (thanks, Dag!). For one thing, the whole setup seems to assume that Squid and DG are running on a proxy server that sits in between the browsing machine and the internet. I hoped I could set it all up on the desktop, without having a separate machine between the desktop and the internet. Does anyone know if that's possible? For another: DG didn't seem to offer automatic updated banned-site and banned-content lists. In fact, I couldn't figure out much about that, at all. There are no banned sites at all listed in the config that results from the yum install (as far as I can tell). Thanks, Matt
