On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Adrian Snyman wrote:

> 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 ..
>

What, proxy all outbound traffic?  What stops the kids from sharing
passowrds.

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