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Old 04-22-2010, 01:57 AM   #1
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Restricting users to access a certain website

Good Day,

I have an internet and mail server installed CentOS, and I want to restrict client machines to access a certain website, e.g. if i want restrict users from accessing the website: www.mydomain.com, How do I do it?

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Cutty
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Old 04-22-2010, 02:05 AM   #2
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Have you looked at squid. www.squid-cache.org/. Also look at Dansguardian
 
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Hi, welcome to LQ!

You're not really saying much about your configuration - I'll
assume that you have a LAN in which a Linux machine is working
as a gateway ...

Have a look at using Squid and/or DansGuardian.



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Old 04-22-2010, 02:06 AM   #4
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Good Day,

I have an internet and mail server installed CentOS, and I want to restrict client machines to access a certain website, e.g. if i want restrict users from accessing the website: www.xxx.com, How do I do it?

Regards,

Cutty
Either setup squid and restrict the site or put the following line in client system's /etc/hosts file:
Quote:
127.0.0.1 www.mydomain.com
But remember if the client user have access to the file he can remove/edit the entry.
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Old 04-22-2010, 02:11 AM   #5
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Hi, Cutty.

You have several methods to achieve the effect.
The first one (and maybe less difficult) is to filter acces via iptables.
The second variant is to install and configure a proxy-server (say, Squid) and deny acces with the help of its ACLs (Access Control Lists).

For the first method you may try to use something like this on the machine which server as a gate for you LAN:
Code:
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m string --string "mydomain.com" --algo kmp -j DROP
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Old 04-22-2010, 12:19 PM   #6
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Either setup squid and restrict the site or put the following line in client system's /etc/hosts file:
Code:
127.0.0.1 www.mydomain.com
But remember if the client user have access to the file he can remove/edit the entry.
He'd have to do that on every client, though. Not on
the Linux box.
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Old 04-22-2010, 04:22 PM   #7
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Good Day,

I have an internet and mail server installed CentOS, and I want to restrict client machines to access a certain website, e.g. if i want restrict users from accessing the website: www.mydomain.com, How do I do it?

Regards,

Cutty
Notice: You used a terrible example website, specifically with the forum's automatic linking.
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