[K12OSN] Prevent Access to KDE...

[Nadav Kavalerchik]

i use KDE as main desktop environment (although GNOME is installed in the
background) and i use the KioskTool to lock down a KDE desktop with a
default proxy and many other things...
here's a link to some pictures we took of the desktop (and other apps):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47142057@N00/sets/72157594378796383/

we also disable the "switch desktop environment" button in the logging
screen
(which is BTW automatic per machine)

On 1/12/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>
>  I second Petre's suggestion.  Having a second box, preferably hanging off
> your firewall, is the proper way to do this.  Matter of fact, you might want
> to look into transparent proxying if you're not using it now.
> Squid/DansGuardian supports this, and it's how we do it (with Symantec Web
> Security--ugh) in my district.
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> Petre Scheie wrote:
>
> See the wiki:
> http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_edit_the_Session_menu_that_appears_on_the_client_login_screen
>
> However, since KDE is installed, there's nothing to prevent an
> enterprising student from opening a terminal and manually calling konqueror
> or kfmclient.  And while you could remove KDE entirely, that will break many
> of the Edutainment packages because they are a part of KEdutainment bundle.
> Probably the best thing to do would be to move Dansguardian to a separate
> machine through which all internet traffic must go.  Then it doesn't matter
> what app they use, they can't get around Dansguardian.
>
> Petre
>
> Accessys at smart.net wrote:
>
> can't you let them run KDE but remove or turn off the permissions to
> Kongbrowser???
>
>
> Bob
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ryan Hackl wrote:
>
> ... and other sessions (other than GNOME)
>
> Students can bypass GNOME, and then access konqbrowser (kfmclient) in the
> KDE environment to 'bypass' our internet filters (through dansguardian).
> Every minute I have a cron job to kill the process, but it's still a
> temptation to too many.
>
> How can I prevent students from bypassing the GNOME environment in the
> log-on screen?
>
> - Ryan
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