Get somebody else history Listings

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Kenneth Keeley

Hi,
How can I as an administrator obtain other users history list to see if
they are visting sites that they are not allowed to visit. This would be use
only when somebody is suspected of breaking company policy.

Thanks for any ideas.
Kenneth
 
Kenneth Keeley said:
Hi,
How can I as an administrator obtain other users history list to see if
they are visting sites that they are not allowed to visit. This would be use
only when somebody is suspected of breaking company policy.
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This is not really an AD issue.

The likely way to approach this is to install ISA or another
firewall/proxy and maintain the logs.

One might wonder why you would not just BLOCK such
access rather than try to find the guilty after the fact.

Admin goal: Make it as easy as possible for users to do
what they are supposed to do, and do your best to make
it impossible for users to do things they are not authorized
to do.
 
Hi,
If you can tell me a way to block the ever growing list of sites that we
don't want staff accessing using the liitle software and hardware that we
have I would be more than happy to try it. We only have simple servers
running windows 2000 Server and Active Directory.

Thanks
 
Kenneth Keeley said:
Hi,
If you can tell me a way to block the ever growing list of sites that we
don't want staff accessing using the liitle software and hardware that we
have I would be more than happy to try it. We only have simple servers
running windows 2000 Server and Active Directory.
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You need a firewall/proxy server. ISA works but it
costs money.

Privoxy is free (SourceForge.net) and offers some
advantage and some (other) limitations over IIS.

They can also work together.

If free is your issue then try Privoxy.

You can also block, but not FORBID, most access
to sites by NAME using a special cache file on
BIND.
 
Hi Herb,
You can also block, but not FORBID, most access
to sites by NAME using a special cache file on
BIND.
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How does this option work and how do I set it up. Would it be a fair
starting point to help prevent people from accessing sites that they should
be accessing. What is involved in keeping this upto date.

Thanks
Kenneth
 
Kenneth Keeley said:
Hi Herb,


How does this option work and how do I set it up. Would it be a fair
starting point to help prevent people from accessing sites that they should
be accessing. What is involved in keeping this upto date.
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You put up a DNS server, BIND probably and use it NOT
for your internal DNS but for all of those DNS servers to
use as a forwarder.

You find one of those Hosts/DNS blocking files and format
it as the cache file.

Load it into BIND and then it can return something dumb,
127.0.0.1 or an internal web server address, for anything
that matches.

It's not really the best way but it is a servicable addition
to blocking.
 
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