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    using 9.10 at a school?

    Hey yall,
    I have very little experience with Linux but am looking to learn a lot more. I have been searching for hours on how to lock kubuntu down.

    I don't want the students to be able to access anything I don't want them to, like the wireless. I would like them to only be able to open the applications I specify. I'm going to be installing kubuntu on a few laptops as a test and am a little slow starting out.

    I don't want them to even be able to change the background. Basically, internet, open office and thats about it.

    Maybe if I could make Kubuntu revert back to my settings exactly after rebooting that would be ok.

    Thanks for your help
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    Re: using 9.10 at a school?

    Are they going to need the wireless? If not, you could turn it off in BIOS and be done with that concern. Wireless is basically "user space", and is not designed to be blocked from users.

    Actually the user accessible parts of system-settings, including desktop wallpapers and such, are also not designed to be blocked. You might be designing a pretty tall order there .... :P

    Maybe a better approach would be to do a USB stick installation (like a Live CD but on a stick) and let them use that. They can't break much running in Live CD mode. Check out reply #80 here: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...pic=3106368.75
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      Re: using 9.10 at a school?

      yes we will require wireless, (I didn't spend all day yesterday figuring that beast out to let it go anyway lol.)

      The reason I am testing this out is I would really like to move away from windows.


      My college using this thing that re-images the lab computers every restart. I wonder if I could get that to work and if a student messes something up just restart the computer. I can't remember the name but I guess google can find it unless yall know of a good one to use.
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        Re: using 9.10 at a school?

        It is possible to make an installation that boots the Live CD ISO file, and runs in "Live CD" mode, and you can do anything that the Live CD lets you do, but no permanent reconfigurations. Maybe that's what you need to do. I haven't done that myself -- I don't know for sure whether Kubuntu supports a "from ISO" booting or not, but I know that sidux does, for example. The idea is that you simply set Grub to boot the ISO image, which is saved on the hard drive, and it loads into memory and that's what you run. Unless you manually mount a hard drive partition, there's no access to the hard drive, and no permanent installation of anything. Similar to the USB booting that I linked above, except you put the ISO and Grub on the hard drive.Upon rebooting the computer, it's back to the same ISO image every time.
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          Re: using 9.10 at a school?

          I'm going to look into it, that could work. Kubuntu is much much nicer than I remember it.
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