Feature #122
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Feature #151: Missing DoudouLinux tools
Allowed hours of day and/or total use by day
Added by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 13 years ago.
Updated over 11 years ago.
Description
The second part of parental controls is a tool to avoid children spend too much time on the computer, and especially to avoid them to wake-up during night with the idea of DoudouLinuxing…
Tools do exist to do this in Linux. They can avoid users to login at given hours, close their session when the limit hour is reached or even count the total hours of use in the day to avoid users use the computer too long a time. However all of this is configured using text files…
So we need a nice and easy to use graphical interface to set hours when children are allowed to use the DoudouLinux computer and eventually the total number of hours per day. An interface with cursors in 7 rulers for the 7 days should match the requirements.
NB: please note that users do not have a personal account on DoudouLinux, so setting 1 hour of day use on Saturday while there are 3 children may cause some of them be unhappy…
- Estimated time deleted (
21:00 h)
- Target version changed from 2011-08 to 2011-11
It seems graphical tools now exist:
- KChildlock which seems to rely on KDE desktop features, unfortunately
- TimeKpr which is a Python program
- Nanny which seems to do to many things compared to our needs (it provides Internet filtering and hours restriction)
We have to look at them and decide what to do…
I just figured out that the small tool timeoutd I've ever used to force user session to close, is still alive and came back to Debian Squeeze after having been removed during the freeze period. The package page is the following:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/timeoutd
We may need to reopen the following bug report since its version hasn't changed at all:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522233
An alternative is to combine this tool with settings in the standard Linux user authentication manager PAM (see /etc/security/time.conf). We then have to write the graphical interface. Note that children should not be given easy access to this interface!
- Due date set to 11/21/2011
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to Gaurav Ashtikar
- Start date set to 10/01/2011
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
- Estimated time set to 30:00 h
Nanny and Kchildlock must be put aside. TimeKpr and timeoutd must be evaluated in depth.
- Due date changed from 11/21/2011 to 02/20/2012
- Target version changed from 2011-11 to 2012-02
- Due date deleted (
02/20/2012)
- Target version changed from 2012-02 to 2012-08
- Start date deleted (
10/01/2011)
- Target version changed from 2012-08 to 2013-02
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