Art Alexion on 15 Feb 2009 13:17:42 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Lock down Gnome desktop


On 02/13/2009 JP Vossen wrote:
> The first two both mentioned this, which was not installed by default on 
> this Ubuntu 8.04 PC:
> 	pessulus - lockdown editor for GNOME
> 
> I installed it, clicked the check-box to "Lock down the panels" and I'm 
> all set.  I think.  I'll have to see if he managed to defeat this too. 
> (IOW, am I smarter than a 2 year old?  Very possibly not...)

IIRC, this is the app used by edubuntu.  I installed that on some older 
PCs in a kid's room my company has for parents who may have to bring 
their kids in from time to time.  The room is unsupervised.  While they 
trashed the hardware, the software, desktop and all, survived.

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