Pardus Parental Control is a graphical parental control application developed for Pardus. It lets an administrator restrict which applications and websites a user can access and control how long that user can remain logged in.
The GTK4 interface provides separate controls for application filtering, domain filtering and session limits. Application and domain rules can operate as either allowlists or denylists. This makes it possible to block a small selection of resources or restrict a user to an explicitly approved set.
Application restrictions are enforced using file permissions and malcontent, while website filtering uses smartdns-rs together with managed browser policies. Session limits are enforced by a privileged daemon, with permitted hours and daily usage limits configurable for individual weekdays.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Graphical GTK4 and libadwaita interface.
- Create application allowlists or denylists.
- Restrict access to individual applications.
- Create website allowlists or denylists.
- Apply domain filtering through a local DNS service.
- Apply managed policies to Firefox, Chrome, Chromium and Brave.
- Disable browser DNS-over-HTTPS to prevent bypassing configured restrictions.
- Set permitted login periods for individual days of the week.
- Set optional daily session time limits.
- Automatically terminate a restricted session when its allotted time expires.
- Display a countdown notification before terminating a session.
- Works with multiple desktop environments.
Website: github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control
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Developer: Pardus
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Pardus Parental Control is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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