[WEB4LIB] Re: "Locking" a machine to locations

[Tara Calishain]

Thanks Andrew! Do you know if a document like this exists for Opera?

At 04:45 PM 10/3/2001, Andrew Mutch wrote:
>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