Yeah, Dan's Guardian is pretty good -- for a censorship machine! I always feel strange endorsing one. There's something especially nice about having the code to these types of systems be free software rather than proprietary, though.
Concerning Active Directory, I recall that Dan's has NTLM support, or some such. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Bjorn Behrendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For content Filtering, firewall, spam, and security in general Take a look > at http://www.untangle.com/. We paid for the supported version at proctor > to get some extra Active Directory integration. But the OpenSource version > of Untangle is defiantly worth a look. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Tisdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:29:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: FOSS and Ubuntu at NPA in Burlington > > Hi Terry, > > In most situations, content filtering is a network function (at the > internet gateway); not a client side function. DansGuardian is > opensource and does an awesome job. It could be run on the client side > but would create a lot of unnecessary overhead. The board member needs > to be educated. It is a nonissue; especially in Burlington. I know > several of the IT people. They do not do client side filtering.They do > Internet Gateway filtering. The only schools that might still be doing > client side filtering are very small and don't have adequate support to > setup network filtering. > > Dave
