Parental Control

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:27:50 GMT, The Etobian wrote:

> I am looking for a way to restict user (kids) access by time and
> content to the net.
>
> If not, is there a way to restrict the time at which a user can log on
> to Mandrake?

squid proxy server may stop content. Never played with it.

You can write a cron job to blow the kid's login away or prevent
login.

Some light reading at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
man ps
man kill

Particial example script run by cron on the half hour.
You place the script in /etc/profile.d with execute permission to
control login. This is untested.

IFS=' :'
set $(date)
_day=$1
_mo=$2
_hr=$3
_min=$4
_stay_on=0

case $_day in
Mon)
if [ $LOGNAME = "kid_1" ] ; then
_stay_on=0
_start=17
_stop=20
fi
if [ $LOGNAME = "kid_2" ] ; then
_stay_on=0
_start=17
_stop=21
fi
;;
Tue)
;;
Wed)
;;
Thu)
;;
Fri)
;;
Sat)
if [ $LOGNAME = "kid_2" ] ; then
_stay_on=0
_start=8
_stop=21
fi
;;
Sun)
;;
esac


if [ "$LOGNAME" = "kid_1" ] ; then
if [ $_hr -gt $_start && $_hr -lt $_stop ] ; then
_stay_on=1
fi
fi

if [ $_stay_on -eq 0 ] ; then

ps U $LOGNAME > /tmp/$LOGNAME

while read line
do
set -a $line
if [ $1 != "PID" ] ; then
kill $1
fi
done < /tmp/$LOGNAME
exit
fi