Set the path of the students who are allowed network access (what, are these parents just wishing that their children will become garbage collectors?) to include a "quarantined" directory, /usr/local/bin for example, that includes the mozilla, netcat, ngrep, nmap, etc. binaries, while excluding that from the path of the students without access. Then chmod the users .profile so they cant change it. You can do it with chgrp on the binaries also.
Scott On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
