need help ! SchoolNet would like to deploy Edubuntu on more than 300 schools,

[Philipp Hanselmann]

Hi,

SchoolNet would like to deploy Edubuntu on more than 300 schools,

After 5 month hard work to make Edubuntu simple for our SchoolNet people 
there only few thing open which we have  to solve ...

Does somebody has an answer on the subject below ..

Thanks for the help,

Philipp

Philipp Hanselmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that on the server screen everybody can switch off the server?
>
> To prevent that, I found out that I can use SystemMenu=false in the 
> gdm configuration (/etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf).
> Ok with this the shutdown and reboot options are not anymore available 
> on the login screen.
>
> But then I noticed that these options are also disappeared if you 
> login on the server with an normal user or even with a administration 
> user (member of admin group). Strange is the logout panel is still 
> offering the  "Hiberrnate" mode.
> So a normal user can still switch off the server!
>
> Like SchoolNet is having also setup's with only 5 clients its imported 
> for us that they schools can also use the server as student computer.
>
> Basically I'm looking for an configuration like that:
> 1.) There should be no option to switch off the server on the login 
> screen.
> 2.) normal user working on the server should NOT have the option to 
> shutdown it with "hiberrnate"
> 4.) administration users working on the server should have the option 
> halt, reboot and hibernate
>
> Does somebody has an idea, how I can get this under Edubuntu/Gnome 
> working?
>
> The upgrade to Gusty is not an option at that time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philipp
>


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