Parental Controls behind proxy server

[scotyboy56]

Hi there

 

We have a suite of iMacs for the music department, and they all run Parental controls to lock them down etc. I know there is something wrong with parental controls inbuilt proxy. However one of the HD's in one of the iMacs broke so we replaced it and it is now on OS X Mavericks in order to install garageband etc, however the old fix doesn't seem to work for OS X mavericks. I hope I'm using the right fix anyway as I had to re find it.

 

"sudo chmod a-x /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Versions/A/Resources /httpsproxyd"

Error is no such file or directory

 

Has anyone come across this and know the fix? Please help

 

Thanks

[AntonioRocco]

You've not mentioned which version of OS X the command works with? Reason I'm asking is because the file httpsproxyd does not seem to exist on the systems I'm testing it with. This would be 10.6 and 10.9:

 

Maybe Apple's support document will help with your situation?

 

Mac OS X 10.5: Proxy configurations and Parental Controls

 

If it was me and assuming you're using a solid OS X deployment tool for your Mac estate, I would either use a post-deployment script invoking the networksetup command, or use ARD or SCCM (assuming you have them?) to run the command post deployment. Something like:

 

For HTTP:

 

networksetup -setwebproxy "Network Interface" "Proxy IPaddress" "Port number"

 

For HTTPS:

 

networksetup -setsecurewebproxy "Interface" "IPaddress" "Port"

 

A working example would look something like this:

 

networksetup -setsecurewebproxy Ethernet 10.10.10.10 800

 

If you want to bypass certain domains use this command:

 

networksetup -setproxybypassdomains Ethernet *.local 169.254/16 *.domain name 10.10.*

 

Hopefully this might help your situation?

 

Antonio Rocco (ACN)