[WEB4LIB] "Locking" a machine to locations

[Andrew Mutch]

Tara,

If you want to use the proxy-by-browser route, you can pass along my help pages.
Select your flavor and enjoy!

Internet Explorer 5 and 6.x
http://northville.lib.mi.us/tech/lockinie.htm
[Public Web Browser allows you to do a similar lockdown in its configuration
files]

Netscape and Communicator 4.x
http://northville.lib.mi.us/tech/lockin.htm

Mozilla and Netscape 6.x
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/pro/mozilla/proxies.htm
[note: the info. on this page represents the "long" way of doing this.  Like
Netscape 4.x, you can set this through the browser preferences panel now.]

K-Meleon
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/pro/mozilla/klimit.htm
[My public "kiosk" browser of choice at the moment as it you can completely
secure the interface against tampering]

These are not my pages but I've linked to them:

Limiting Webmail (and other such services) on Public Access Workstations
By Eric H. Schnell
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/email.html

Limiting Workstation Access to Specific Internet Sites using a Bogus Proxy Server

By Tim Kambitsch
http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/~kambitsch/netscape/bogus-proxy-server.html

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Tara Calishain wrote:

> Gentle Librarians,
>
> I've been asked to assist in securing a computer that will be connected to
> the Internet.
> The people concerned wish to limit the Web access very drastically.
>
> Basically they want to limit Web access to one or two domains AT MOST. One of
> the domains will be a standard domain, like www.news.com, while another
> will be a
> subdomain, like dailynews.yahoo.com .
>
> I have seen discussion of this in this group before, but I don't know if
> the narrowness
> of the scope is a problem. Has anyone done anything like this? Is there
> software you
> would care to recommend?
>
> thanks,
>
> Tara