On Monday 01 November 2004 14:27, Jaime wrote: > I work in a publish school in the US and am considering LTSP for our > younger students. The problem is, a significant number of them have > paperwork from their parents that forbid them from using the Internet > while allowing them to use computers in general. The way that we do > this on our Macintosh systems is to sort students into two > "workgroups." One of them doesn't allow the user to launch certain > programs, e.g. web browsers, FTP clients, etc. while the other one > does. > > I know that Unix doesn't usually have anything like this. I figured > that my best bet was to set their shells to pdmenu and then manually > install .xinitrc files in each account. I could probably script this, > but a savvy user could still use any text editor (or word processor > with a Save As command) to change this. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I need to be sure that some > students can run Firefox while others can't. Any pointers are > appreciated. For background purposes, I've been running Unix and > Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.) in various ways for > almost 9 years. > > Thanks in advance, > Jaime
Hmmm .. I would have thought that you could just set up proxy with authetication ?? Those who are allowed .. give them passwords .. -- Regards, Adrian Snyman Tel: (083)647-5299 /* Beat Me, Whip Me, Make me use Windows !! */ ================== The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author and not those of Supply Chain Services or its management. The information in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of information and data transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no liability or responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended destination. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
