Parental Control - KanoComputing/kano-settings GitHub Wiki


Level: Low

Blocks blacklisted websites

The complete list of websites can be found here.
The list is compiled from this site, and it can be generated with this script.

It is possible to create a whitelist of websites that the user can have access to.

Please note that the Blacklist and Whitelist is only applicable in this level.

Activates Google SafeSearch

We use a .db file with the correct configuration (cookies) to turn on SafeSearch in Google in the browser. The file can be found in this path: /usr/share/kano-video/cookies/browser_safe/cookies.db
It is stored in kano-video repo.

Activates Youtube SafeSearch

We use a .db file with the correct configuration (cookies) to turn on SafeSearch in the Youtube site. The file can be found in this path: /usr/share/kano-video/cookies/youtube_safe/cookies.db
It is stored in kano-video repo.


Level: Medium

DNS server

This setting re-directs all the traffic through OpenDNS. It gets set in this line


Level: High

#### Sets incognito mode for Chromium We set Chromium to incognito mode using policy keys in this line.

Blocks search engines

A whole list of the top-20 most popular search engines gets completely blocked. Including the subdomains, for more details see here.


Level: Ultimate

Only Kano World activities

The only internet traffic enable is the one to our servers: login, Kano World, sharing, syncing your profile will work. The rest will be redirected to localhost, which means that you won't be able to access external websites or services. This is done in this line.

Read this wiki page for a complete description of this level.