<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ta guys. Sridhar has there been any cases you know of from the NT or elsewhere of kids doing much deleting etc yet? <div><br></div><div>These are just all the questions I'll get asked re: management rights. Is there an easy (ie. busy classroom teacher easy) method to do the re-imaging then?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm assuming tho that with no XS backups in place, a deleted journal would be lost for good. </div><div><br></div><div>Understand about the keyring - would just have to have a procedure where this was set centrally somehow initially so yes wifi passwords could be saved, but the machine was still accessible by the school tech etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Ta,<br><div>
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</b></b></div></span></div></span></span></span></div><br><div><div>On 28/09/2010, at 12:01 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 28 September 2010 09:28, Jonathan Nalder <<a href="mailto:jnald2@eq.edu.au">jnald2@eq.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi team,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have been exploring using GNOME to connect to our DETQ network - need to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">load a security certificate also which is the sticking point at the moment.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">With some help I was able to get it connected to our network, but when we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">switched to sugar the connection did not remain active<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This has also led me to consider the place of GNOME in our rollouts - its<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">not even really mentioned in the teacher training, but of course for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">students who find it and use it I need to know a couple of things security<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wise which those above me would ask:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- how locked down re: user rights is the GNOME side of things?<br></blockquote><br>There is no locking down. The olpc user account is by design a limited<br>privilege account, but there is no root password so it is easy to get<br>full access.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">- can the XO boot off a USB?<br></blockquote><br>It can boot from USB or SD card (there's a slot under the screen). The<br>operating system you choose needs to support the XO's hardware (e.g.<br>it uses OpenFirmware instead of a BIOS).<br><br><blockquote type="cite">- can students who have no idea what they are doing do much damage in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">terminal?<br></blockquote><br>If they don't su/sudo to root, the most they can do is trash the olpc<br>home directory. The important files and directories are hidden, but an<br>enterprising child may be able to delete the Journal and installed<br>Sugar activities and settings.<br><br>The easy way to recover is to use a Customisation Stick. If the system<br>gets corrupted, the XO can be reimaged.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">- is it possible to have the keyring in GNOME turned off? Wouldn't want<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">students entering an initial password that gets lost etc and causes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">problems.<br></blockquote><br>The keyring is used to store passwords and other sensitive information<br>in an encrypted form. This includes passwords for wireless networks.<br><br>It can be disabled, but that means you'll have to, for example, type<br>in the password of the wireless network each time you want to connect.<br><br><br><br>Sridhar Dhanapalan<br>Technical Manager<br>One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia<br>p: +61 425 239 701<br>w: <a href="http://laptop.org.au">http://laptop.org.au</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>