Hi Carlos, > Anyway, default installation of XO OS gives easy access to admin > controls. This just a G1G1 thing, or is this something that's > disabled by default?
We intentionally give admin controls to children; we are trying to encourage them to explore, create, and solve problems with their machines. If they break something, the school can keep a USB key available for quick reflashes via holding down all four game keys, or the student can hold down the O key to boot into their previous build from olpc-update. I hope we will soon have a key to hold down at boot that restores you to the root filesystem as it was before your modifications, too, as an "undo button". The children do not, in fact, regularly get malware, hacked, or stop their machine from booting through installing unauthorized software, so I don't think this is a large problem -- certainly not one worth crippling the machines from being able to install new software for. The "undo button" functionality or olpc-update's "boot into previous build" are sufficient to mitigate the sort of problems you're thinking of, though. Personally, I'd encourage deployments to continue to give root access to their children: there are other laptops that are designed to be locked-down and restricted, but this one is not one of them, and the combination of totally open-source software and restrictions on installing or modifying software do not mix well together. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
