[Sugar-devel] Parental controls (UPDATE)

[Ryan Cunningham]

I am including an updated set of patches: The update adds another check for the root password such that it is checked whenever the control panel is opened if parental controls are on at that time.

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On Apr 23, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Ryan Cunningham <rvskmbrly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 5:46 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Any access control specific to activities would have to keep a list of
>> activities that are controlled, and the list would have to survive
>> over an activity deinstall reinstall cycle.  An activity could be
>> renamed to avoid this control.  We have no authentication of
>> activities on which to base these controls.  We have forked activities
>> with similar function but different name; e.g. Turtle Blocks vs Turtle
>> Bots.
> 
> This access control list is a separate entity from any activity---it being stored in "~/.sugar" when activities are stored in "~/Activities" or "/usr/share/sugar/activities"---and the forked activity could be added to the access control list as needed.
> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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