YaST/Modules/SquidGuard

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SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use black- and whitelists with the proxysoftware Squid.

The YaST SquidGuardmodule should provide an easy way to edit the complex SquidGuard configuration, maintain own black- and whitelists and download addtional free blacklists.

This module is currently in a "pre - proof of concept" state and not ready but requested by the Education Project - so feel free to add your wishes here in the discussion site.

First target: edit personal black- and whitelist

• Without any other information, the module expects the personal black- and whitelists in the directories /var/lib/squidGuard/db/custom/bad/ and /var/lib/squidGuard/db/custom/good

• in each of this directories can be a file named domains, a file named expressions and a file named urls (see configuration options). In the first step, we just work with domains and urls.

• The module reads the files, (creates MD5SUMS to be shure no other process has changed them bevore we save it back) sorts the content and presents it to the user in two tabs (see Screenshots).

• Now the user can enter additional domains or urls, edit the existing ones or remove some of them. Hitting the Reset button will delete all changes and present the saved settings.

• If a user clicks on the Save List button, the module sorts the content of the textarea:
  • trunc the protocol (http://; ftp://; .*://) from each line
  • see if it's a domain (no other "/" in the line or just a "/" at the end of the line) and save it to the domains file
  • see if it's a url and save it to the urls file

• Clicking on the Finish button:
  • Print a Popup, if there are not saved changes (Save? Yes|No)
  • re-initialize SquidGuards database (by calling squidGuard -C all - or just detect which file has changed and just compile this one?)
  • check if squid is running and reload squid so the new settings can take effect

Screenshots

Here are the first screenshots of the module

YaST2 SquidGuard: Edit own blacklist

YaST2 SquidGuard: Edit own whitelist

See Also

• YaST

External Links

• SquidGuard