Program to address teacher's need of managing student users' permissions

[Néstor]

Hi David,

you can try Pessulus, I use it on a server&desktop for people not to
turn it off "by accident". And I think that Sabayon should also work
at least in Ubuntu Hardy.

A script is not a bad idea, but it's not very fine grained. Anyways,
there's no easy way to defend people from themselves: someone can just
manage to get a 22yo blonde girl on the computer background given
enough time. But this can also be challenging!!

I would give people the possiblity of having an automatic scan on
their homes for viruses with clamscan, just in case they share that
information with computers with other OSes.

I think you will enjoy your task, and do a lot of good to your community.

Good luck with your project!! :-) Please, send any comments and I'll
help if I can.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a teacher working to establish a thin client setup in my classroom which
> upon success will be immediately replicated in 2 other science classrooms.
> While the district (Minneapolis Public Schools) is supporting my efforts,
> they don't know Linux so I'm on my own--with you-all as back up!  My goal is
> create a flexible hardware/software/pedagogical model that will be
> replicated in all Minneapolis public schools and anyplace where the kids are
> economically the neediest and of course anywhere else.  My blog
> http://groosd.blogspot reports the tip of the iceberg of my efforts to get
> this working.
>
> As a teacher properly manages computer user permissions in class, students
> grow in responsible use of this resource.  While there are some students who
> follow the rules when told, others like to explore and test limits.  Having
> a process to manage what students can do on the computers and rewarding
> students who use the resources responsibly, brings everyone together,
> allowing for a creative, collaborative and hard working classroom of
> adolescents.
>
> From what I've heard and read on line, there was an excellent GUI program
> Sabayon which was designed to do just this.  Apparently this isn't being
> maintained and it doesn't work in Hardy or Intrepid.  I've seen that some
> including LaserJock have worked some on this lately but don't know of
> status?
>
> Andreas Olsson and Jordan Mantha and others suggested making a simple script
> to manage group permissions, a great way to solve this need.  Andreas said
> he would write this script in PERL (his strength) as a proof of concept as
> well as to meet my class' immediate need.  Comments? thoughts?
>
> Thanks for all of your work; it makes my work possible.
>
> David
>
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