[SoaS] Limited Internet Access for SOAS

[Raffael Reichelt]

I understand ... is there some other way to provide soas with
whitelist based internet access?

Raffael

2010/6/19 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Raffael Reichelt
> <raffael.reichelt at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I had a talk with sebastian at linuxtag about including local squid
>> with a whitelist in soas. I do not know how others thinking about this
>> but I am generally concerned about giving unlimited internet access to
>> the children. This might be different in a schoolserver/XO
>> environment, but if you want to have a widely spread soas deployment
>> it should be available at least as an option.
>>
>> Unfortunately there are no constantly maintained whitelists available
>> - I talked to the people of "Kinder im Netz" - a german organisation
>> maintaining a whitelist - but they have legal/licence concerns opening
>> the whitelist to other software beside their own (propietary) windows
>> software.
>
> Not in the SoaS image. SoaS is designed to run on netbooks, squid is a
> daemon that should run on a server, it also creates a massive
> directory structure that will cause issues on liveUSB keys and not
> really run at all on a live cd. If the parents/teachers that are
> giving SoaS to their children want to restrict the access to the net
> they can do it via their internet connection or turn on the child safe
> internet option that just about all ISPs provide.
>
> Peter
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