I'd like to set time limits for some specific applications (such as games) on Ubuntu. There are various Windows applications that can do this, including HomeGuard Program Blocker, which can limit the usage of certain applications to specific times of day, or restrict application use to certain periods of time. Is there any similar software for Ubuntu?
I have been looking over the Internet for the Gnome Nanny blacklist repo, and I am not able to find it.
In the Help for the application there's a repo called Nanny Central DansGuardian Clone but the application looks for a Nanny Central repo that I don't know where to find.
I am really needing this information to setup the application.
Thank you.
In windows there is a very good program which block inappropriate sites called K9 web protection I was wondering is there a program like that or a good option to block inappropriate sites?
I'd like to make an account for my daughter in which:
- Only the Applications menu is shown. Maybe Places. Definitely no System.
- The Applications menu only shows the applications I choose for her (games, education, etc.)
- There's no internet connection
Does anyone know of a good way to set up some sort of parental controls so that one user account is subject to them, but not another?
A couple of friends of mine use Ubuntu and have kids (7 to 10 years old) who use the family computer. They'd like to have some blocking of adult sites. They're not going to supervise all the time, which I know might be ideal, but there we go. And they're not particularly technical, so they don't want to have to run scripts to turn the parental controls on and off regularly, but they can cope with having different accounts for different people. I haven't found a great way of doing this. I am pretty technical, so I'm happy to spend some time at the command line to set it up, but then it needs to just work.
Please don't just link to DansGuardian. If your answer doesn't address the different user account aspect, I will vote it down. If you want to talk about general parental controls that apply to all users then please start a new question - I'm sure that plenty of people would be interested in it, and I'll link to it from this question.