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From: Peter J. Russell <email@hidden>
To: Mac OSX Client-Management List <email@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 8:15:07 AM
Subject: Parental Controls disabling Internet behind authenticated proxy
Hi All,
I have been experiencing one major issue with trying to use Parental Controls on stand-alone machines behind an authenticated proxy. Everytime Parental controls is enabled on a particular
standard user, internet access for that user is suddenly disabled.
I have tested by creating a new user named 'student' and browsing the net with Safari and Firefox on an iMac running 10.5.3. When I enable Parental Controls (leaving all the default settings as they are), log off the student, then log back on as the student... browsing in both Safari and Firefox is disabled with the exception of local websites which do not use the proxy server.
I'm wondering if this may be something to do with ports being blocked when Parental Controls are turned on as we use port 8080
for our proxy server rather than 3128.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Cheers,
PJR
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I've made some further progress testing this by changing the port on my squid proxy server to 3128 and the client locked under parental controls now browses the internet fine. Swapping back to port 8080 for the proxy disables browsing.
Any ideas on how I could potentially allow port 8080 within Parental Controls?
Cheers,
PJR
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