Re: [squid-users] Looking for additional information about securing squid

2016-12-13 Thread Steve Becker
> First question - what are you aiming / hoping to achieve by implementing > Squid? 1. Some ad blocking via an MVPS hosts file. I'm not trying for a perfect solution, some ad blocking is better than none. 2. Parental control abilities. I like that squid can serve a local webpage that can say, "

[squid-users] Looking for additional information about securing squid

2016-12-13 Thread Steve Becker
Hi all, My background's in networking, I'm very new to unix/linux and server administration, I don't know a whole lot about security beyond ACLs and setting up crypto for VPNs. I'm setting up a box at home with CentOS and squid, among other features (I want this box to be a syslog server, etc).