Parental controls for Edubuntu?

Gavin McCullagh gmccullagh at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 21:58:44 BST 2006


On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Robert Citek wrote:

> ByteWorks[1] refurbishes donated computers and gives them to  underserved 
> youth who have gone through the Earn-A-Computer program.   Since our 
> target audience is between the ages of 9 and 13 years, many  parents have 
> expressed a desire to have "Parental Controls" installed  on the machines, 
> something like CyberPatrol[2] or NetNanny[3].  Do  "Parental Controls" 
> exist for Linux, specifically for Edubuntu?   They'd be willing to pay for 
> such a service.

The Squid web proxy has several content filters available including:

	http://dansguardian.org/

None of these are perfect, but they remove a fair bit of bad stuff.
Perfect content filtering is nigh on impossible anyway,

Setting up dansguardian is not entirely trivial but there's a guide for
Ubuntu here.  

	http://www.pilpi.net/journal/item-985.php

Gavin





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