Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:09 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > The problem is things/websites/etc that "many" parents don't think >> > are appropriate for their children. >> > >> > "They" don't want this inappropriate material dumped into their >> > children's laps right along side the things that the parents *do* >> > consider appropriate. >> >> These parents shouldn't give their children root access to the computers >> in the family. If they do give them root access, there's no way to >> prevent them from downloading such things, anyway (except perhaps some >> mandatory filtering proxy). > > What does giving them root access have to do with this?
If somebody has root access to a computer that is connected to the internet, she or he can download and install anything that this computer can download. For example, she can install dosage from the upstream sources, or just download the comics manually. If the computer has access only via a restrictive filtering proxy, this is prevented. But then you can as well let them install dosage. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
