[K12OSN] Prevent Access to KDE...

[Petre Scheie]

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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