Hi Bill, Public fox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3911 the extension for firefox that I just learned about from Peter will do the kind of whitelisting/blacklisting that OSX/Safari does.
HTH, John On 10/17/07, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our small elementary school received a donation of reasonably new > machines, all fast P4s with 1GB and large disks. One common use is > educational games via flash over the Internet. Although much of the > documentation discusses using LTSP, my thinking is that there will be > quite a bit of screen bandwidth needed. Since the machines are > powerful I'm thinking it makes more sense to not use LTSP. > > This does make management a bit more difficult, though, especially > if the school decides to give out logins for each student using the > machines (instead of, say, a "guest" login). > > Can anyone offer suggestions how to best setup this configuration. > Seems like NFS mounting /home, but I'm wondering what else can be > shared to ease management. > > Another question is how to lock down the machines. I've looked at the > Lockdown Editor Pessulus and Sabayon. What about blocking URLs? Mac > OSX/Safari has a reasonably easy parenteral control where the browser > won't go to any domain that isn't defined. And when it's attempted > the admin can enter their password to provide access. Any pointers > how to implement this? > > Thanks very much, > > -- > Bill Moseley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
