squidGuard can be used to
- limit the web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known
web servers and/or URLs only.
- block access to some listed or blacklisted web servers and/or URLs
for some users.
- block access to URLs matching a list of regular expressions or words
for some users.
- enforce the use of domainnames/prohibit the use of IP address in
URLs.
- redirect blocked URLs to an "intelligent" CGI based info page.
- redirect unregistered user to a registration form.
- redirect popular downloads like Netscape, MSIE etc. to local copies.
- redirect banners to an empty GIF.
- have different access rules based on time of day, day of the week,
date etc.
- have different rules for different user groups.
- and much more..
Neither squidGuard nor Squid can be used to
- filter/censor/edit text inside documents
- filter/censor/edit embeded scripting languages like JavaScript or
VBscript inside HTML
Provides
Requires
License
GPL-2.0-only
Changelog
* Fri Jul 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-53
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-52
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-51
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jan 22 2025 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.4-50
- fix rawhide build
* Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-49
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jul 20 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-48
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild
Files
/etc/cron.daily/squidGuard
/etc/logrotate.d/squidGuard
/etc/squid/squidGuard.conf
/usr/bin/hostbyname
/usr/bin/sgclean
/usr/bin/squidGuard
/usr/bin/squidGuard-helper
/usr/bin/transparent-proxying-helper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/a466682f935966690b114f7ad1e39e0d414873
/usr/lib/systemd/system/squidGuard.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/transparent-proxying.service
/usr/share/doc/squidGuard
/usr/share/doc/squidGuard/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/squidGuard/GPL
/usr/share/doc/squidGuard/LDAPFlow.txt
/usr/share/doc/squidGuard/authentication.html
/usr/share/doc/squidGuard/authentication.txt
/usr/