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Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options?
First time accepted submitter clava writes "We have a desktop Java testing application that is going to be administering tests to students on lab computers running Ubuntu 10.x. These computers are used by the students for other purposes and we're not allowed to create special users or change the OS configuration. When the testing app is launched, we need to restrict users from exiting the app so they can't do things like search the internet for answers or use other applications. Is there a good way to put an Ubuntu machine in kiosk mode or something via our application and have exiting kiosk mode be password protected? Any ideas are appreciated."
If you aren't prepared to do it and try to "cheat" by asking slashdot, why should you expect any different from your students?
Design tests that challenge understanding of the subject and reasoning, not memory. But I guess mediocre teachers are good enough for mediocre students. Or was it the other way around?
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