[Technical] stopping students from killing the VNC process in thetask bar.

Joshua Morgan joshua at joshuapaulmorgan.com
Thu Dec 11 18:07:47 EST 2008


What's to prevent him/her from killing it via Task Manager. By the
way, UltraVNC allows the notification area icon to be hidden.

On 12/11/08, Ford, Jordie <jordie.ford at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Alan, I tested this on the culprits account and it worked. Can't wait
> to see the look on his face
>
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
> Behalf Of Alan Oh
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:34 PM
> To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Technical] stopping students from killing the VNC process in
> thetask bar.
>
>
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> Hi Jordie. In the vnc server  doco, there are some parameters you can use to
> grey out the "Stop VNC server" so essentially, no one can touch it. Eg
>
>
>
> AllowShutdown
> If this is set to zero, the user is not allowed to close down WinVNC. Local
> per-user setting.
>
> AllowProperties
> If this is set to zero, the user is not allowed to view the properties
> dialog and hence cannot change any settings, including the password.  Note
> that this stops all global per-user settings. A valid password must
> therefore be in force before using this setting, generally in the local
> default-user setting.  Local per-user setting.
>
> Regards
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>   _____
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> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
> Behalf Of Ford, Jordie
> Sent: Thursday, 11 December 2008 5:23 PM
> To: tech at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Technical] stopping students from killing the VNC process in
> thetask bar.
>
>
>
> Hi there guys, last one hopefully this year. Is there such a way to stop
> students from accessing vnc in the task bar and selecting Stop VNC server.
>
>
>
> And also stopping them from killing it in the task manager. (spose I could
> just disable it in gp)
>
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