Pessulus

Hitboxx · 05-22-2007, 11:13 PM

Hi guys,

Just in, a nice Gnome application is available called Pessulus

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The software lets you create a profile that limits a user to a set of application that a system administrator allows. It has a nice, logically structured GUI that allows administrators to choose and click checkboxes on the options that you want to deny for user access. By default all the lockdown functions are unchecked, meaning the system remains configured as is. Also, there is no button to check all the checkboxes at once; you have to choose each one by one. Moving the mouse button over a specific lockdown option gives administrators a description of that function in a popup box.

Think of it like Group Policy Editor or gpedit in Windows. Though still very much in development, it has nice GUI interface and hopefully require less CLI tinkering.

Check your repo today. For Fedora users

Code:

#yum install pessulus

hob · 05-26-2007, 02:28 PM

It's very cool but under heavy development, so don't expect too much. It may be merged with another tool called "Sabayon", which launches a GNOME desktop in a window and saves any changes that you make into a settings file that can be applied to any user account.