Controlling and managing Edubuntu users' desktops
This article is excerpted from the newly published The Official Ubuntu Book, Second Edition.
The community-driven Edubuntu project aims to create a version of Ubuntu specially tailored for use in primary and secondary education. Perhaps the most useful feature present in the Edubuntu OS is the Linux Terminal Server Project environment, whose applications are not limited just to eduction. The LTSP model centers around one powerful machine that acts as a server and several often much lower-powered machines that act as clients and boot from an installation of Ubuntu on the server. Though you will not be installing anything on them, there are still some maintenance tasks specifically directed at clients.
Thin Client Manager began life as Student Control Panel in Dapper 6.06 and was written by Oliver Grawert. It was then revamped and feature-enhanced in 6.10, and again in 7.04 by Pete Savage and Oliver Grawert. Thin Client Manager now offers many of the features you would find in a commercial network management package. Designed specifically to administrate and manage the LTSP thin client environment, it provides the following features.
Stop a process on the client's machine.
Log users out of their sessions.
Send users a message.
Run an application on the client's machine.
Blank or lock users' screens.
Lock down clients using Pessulus.
Add users to groups for ease of filtering.
Use a plug-in framework to perform simple tasks.
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