System-Config-Firewall, Bluetooth, CodecBuddy, System-Config-Selinux and an BB/Nanny

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> First of all thanks to all the sponsors/developers/testers/maintainers/
> people contributing/work on/in creating Fedora..
> 
> I manage to gather a couple of people/"lab rats" with little
> to none technical skills at the price of beer,wine and food last weekend.
> I had couple of computers and my "toys" on a table for them to play with.
> ( mp3 player cameras etc.. and yes they all worked with Fedora but they
> did not know that, age group 30 to 50 both genders )controlled enviroment.
> 
> They installed and used Werewolf and I got to watch them do that ;) ...
> What came out of this other than an great party afterwards was....
> 
> So let's skip the usually things we all know are great...
> 
> System-config-firewall this was the first time that
> my human technical challenge lab rats could use it with
> comfort and ease and could grasp when I explained how to use
> it.
> 
> 2 RFE came out of this torrent ports were missing from the hasable list
> and 1 user was wondering if there was some stats app about how many
> "virus/attacks" he avoided ( block/drop packages ) his question
> comes from those anti virus apps I suppose...
> Will file that when I have time..
> 
> And I believe that this deserves the N1 place in "on the hood"
> from noob user perspective changes in FC8..
> 
> The second place goes to CodecBuddy people did mind
> paying for media codecs as long as they could play their media
> but they did mind have to register instead
> of getting to pay instantly/now/paypal button but then
> again its fluendo problem losing money out the window..
> 
> In the third place from noob user perspective "on the hood"
> Bluetooth, Why third? because all those lab rats knew or some
> didnt know that their phone had bluetooth and all those noob users
> had never used it nor turned it on ofcourse I tested them and and yes they
> all worked..
> 
> System-config-Selinux notifier wtf for the noob...
> I triggered an selinux alert and shtf and here we are at impass
> Even if we make the "notice" more userfriendly, we cant have
> *next* ( which they wanted ) button to solve it because we dont
> want the user to allow something that should not be allowed
> ( and yes these users would press the next button to make it go away )
> I gave this a great deal of thought and came up with nothing
> just that this will always be a problem.
> ( no we dont want users to disable this with disable me button,
> because whats the point having it if everybody disable it. )
> 
> Now I was asked if there was available Bigbrother/Nanny software
> that could protect/monitor their children computer usage
> from all the harm and danger the internet can bring?
> 
> Anything anyone?
> 
> Does Redhat have this covered before rolling out Redhat-Desktop
> 
> Something that can ease the mind of parents?
> 
> Best Regards
>           Johann B.
> 
Did you install and run setroubleshoot?

The goal of this package is to be the "nanny"

> Ps. Somebody might wanna update the wiki page to mention
>     Werewolf as current maintainded release, and take out Zod
>     ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases )
> 

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