Excellent idea, We have in house a control panel we wrote for gnome That works with these settings as well as a front end for the Bastille hardening script fail2ban, chkrootkit and clamAV this could passably be modified and submitted for inclusion into Ubuntu.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Florian Diesch <die...@spamfence.net>wrote: > > If we use GSettings to store the settings administrators can just use > the usual dconf locks as described in > http://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/3.6/lockdown.html.en > > > > Am Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:13:22 -0800 > schrieb Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com>: > > > > > Yes, it would make sense for this to be manageable by administrators > > at the system and network level, patches welcome. > > > > On 02/18/2013 02:09 PM, Chad Germann wrote: > > > Good idea but one thing is missing Will there be a way for this Opt > > > out to be added to a group policy that could be locked by an > > > administrator such as in the Privacy control center? > > > > > > I could see this being an issue for workstations that are used to > > > handle sensitive information in the form of National security or > > > trade secret > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Vibhav Pant <vibh...@ubuntu.com > > > <mailto:vibh...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: > > > > > > I couldnt have thought of a better solution. +1! > > > > > > On Feb 17, 2013 9:53 PM, "Mark Shuttleworth" <m...@canonical.com > > > <mailto:m...@canonical.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Here's how we are going to handle this: > > > > > > * We will make a very bold, clear way for you to turn on > > > and off network queries across ALL scopes for any given session in > > > the dash. > > > Think about this like the 'anonymous' mode in your browser. > > > Toggle it, > > > right there in the Dash, and you are totally certain you are > > > not sending > > > network traffic. We will aim to enforce this at the kernel > > > level, hence > > > the CC to Jamie S who leads our security team. > > > > > > * We will have the ability to configure the Home screen, > > > including > > > choice of scopes, and the behaviour of individual scopes. > > > > > > * Legal notices will all be in one place, in the 'About > > > Ubuntu' part of > > > the UX, and visible in the install experience too. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > > > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eunity-design> > > > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > > > <mailto:unity-design@lists.launchpad.net> > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > > > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eunity-design> > > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > > > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eunity-design> > > > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > > > <mailto:unity-design@lists.launchpad.net> > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > > > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eunity-design> > > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Privacy Indicator > Unity appindicator to switch privacy settings > <http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/indicator-privacy/> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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