Firefox configuration management

[Joshua Zeidner]

George,

  In most cases my response to this would be RTFM, but I have had some
interactions with you in the past but I am feeling like a generous guy
today and I have recently had some very helpful responses to my
queries from other PLUG members.

  You can go with the configuration I suggest, but the idea David
Demland proposes would probably work just as well.

  I suggest doing this:

   # this will allow firefox to contact your proxy through port 8080
   iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP --dport 8080 127.1.1.1 -m owner -d
--uid-owner cff -j ACCEPT

   # this will stop all other communications with potentially cretinous slobs
   iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -m owner --uid-owner cff -j DROP

  I havent debugged this, but this should work( or something very
close ).  Its been a while since I've worked directly with IPtables.

  best of luck, jmz





  iptables



On 1/22/07, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:
> Your assumption is correct - squid + DansGuardian
>
> I need a little help.
>
> I tried:
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP --dport 80 --uid-owner cff -j REJECT
> and got this error:
> iptables v1.3.3: Unknown arg `--uid-owner'
> Try `iptables -h' or `iptables --help' for more information.
>
> I also tried
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP --dport 80 --uid-owner 1001 -j REJECT
> with the same error.
>
> I looked in the man page, and it looks right to me:
>         --uid-owner userid
>                Matches if the packet was created by a process with the
> given effective user id.
>
> What did I mess up?
>
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> 623-203-1760
>
>
>
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > On 1/21/07, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I need to set up a Linux workstation (Computers for Families project)
> >>that filters content.  The workstation is an edubuntu install.  Users
> >>have a generic login, separate from the admin, and the root account is
> >>locked.  I added Squid and DansGuardian, which works perfectly once the
> >>Firefox connection settings are set to 127.0.0.1:8080.  Problem is that
> >>any user can override this setting in their local profile.
> >>
> >>Is there an elegan way to prevent a user from changing this setting and
> >>surfing the sites of ill repute?
> >>
> >>Kluge/Hackjob method 1:
> >>I guess I could implement a cronjob that checks to see if firefox has
> >>any established port 80 connections, then kills it.  Pretty Draconian,
> >>but it will get the point across.  Make pref.js read-only for the user
> >>which restores the proxy settings.  Pretty inconvenient for the user :(
> >>
> >>
> >>Thoughts?
> >
> >
> >    George,
> >
> >       I am assuming you are running Squid and DansGaurdian as a
> > different user than firefox(  if not you should change it ).  You
> > should set iptables to block all packets with destination other than
> > localhost:8080 from your browser user( use --uid-owner <firefoxuser>
> > switch ).  This will also stop them from using other applications to
> > contact internet services of ill repute.
> >
> >    -jmz
> >
> >
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