Written by Andrew in , , , , Saturday, March 27, 2010 Gnome Nanny Toorak is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer, under Linux. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny Toorak filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries! Using Gnome Nanny Toorak (Parental Control), you can control which websites you children can and can’t access and for how long for each day of the week they can access the computer, the web, email or an instant messaging client. Installing the latest Gnome Nanny Toorak version in Ubuntu Linux is very easy, as there is a Launchpad PPA available. To add the PPA, simply paste the following command(s) in a terminal: -Ubuntu Lucid and Karmic: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:Nanny Toorak -Ubuntu Jaunty: sudo bash -c “echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/Nanny Toorak/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list” && sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 132D48BA Then, install Gnome Nanny Toorak in Ubuntu Lucid / Karmic / Jaunty using the following command : sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install Nanny Toorak Once installed, you will find Gnome Nanny Toorak under System > Administration > Parental Control . Using Gnome Nanny Toorak (Parental Control) is very easy, simply select the user for which you want to enable the restrictions, then chose what you want to restrict: pc use time, web browser, mail client or instant messaging and select some hours on a certain day to restrict the access for the selected user. You can also select and drag using you mouse to set the restriction for multiple hours or a whole day. You can also simply set the number of hours your kids can use per day (for each category: web browser, mail, etc.), without selecting the interval: And finally, under the Web Browser tab you can also select web content filtering and restrict access to some websites. Additionally, you can import website blacklists by going to System > Administration > BlackLists . [via Luís Cardoso @ , special thanks to Claudio Novais for the tip ] Blog Archive Jan 2011 (83) Dec 2010 (87) Nov 2010 (72) Oct 2010 (103) Sep 2010 (114) Aug 2010 (73) Jul 2010 (104) Jun 2010 (119) May 2010 (130) Apr 2010 (106) Mar 2010 (131) Feb 2010 (118) Jan 2010 (114) Dec 2009 (136) Nov 2009 (163) Oct 2009 (176) Sep 2009 (213) Aug 2009 (187) Jul 2009 (164) Jun 2009 (199) May 2009 (286) Apr 2009 (204) Mar 2009 (259) Feb 2009 (57) People online:
