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malcontent-client get-app-filter [-q] [-n] [USER]

malcontent-client check-app-filter [-q] [-n] [USER] ARG

malcontent-client set-app-filter [-q] [-n] [USER] ARG

malcontent-client oars-section [-q] [-n] [USER] SECTION

malcontent-client get-session-limits [-q] [-n] [USER]

malcontent-client monitor [-q] [USER]

malcontent-client is a utility for querying and updating the parental controls settings for users on the system. It will typically require administrator access to do anything more than query the current user’s parental controls.

It communicates with accounts-service, which stores parental controls data.

Its first argument is a command to run. The supported commands are documented below.

The command line API and output format are unstable and likely to change in future versions of malcontent-client.

Get the app filter for a user. For example:

USER

Username or ID of the user to get the app filter for. If not specified, the current user will be used by default.

-q,  --quiet

Only output error messages, and no informational messages, as the operation progresses. (Default: Output informational messages.)

-n,  --no-interactive

Do not allow interactive authorization with polkit. If this is needed to complete the operation, the operation will fail. (Default: Allow interactive authorization.)

Check if a given program, content type or flatpak ref is permitted to be used by a user, according to their current app filter. For example:

USER

Username or ID of the user to get the app filter for. If not specified, the current user will be used by default.

ARG

Path to a program, content type or flatpak ref to check against the app filter, to see if it is allowed for the specified user.

-q, --quiet

Only output error messages, and no informational messages, as the operation progresses. (Default: Output informational messages.)

-n, --no-interactive

Do not allow interactive authorization with polkit. If this is needed to complete the operation, the operation will fail. (Default: Allow interactive authorization.)

Set the app filter for a user, replacing all previous values in it. For example:

USER

Username or ID of the user to set the app filter for. If not specified, the current user will be used by default.

ARG

Item to filter in the user’s app filter. This could either be an absolute path or flatpak ref of a program to block; a content type to block all programs handling that type; or an OARS section=value pair to block installation of apps with a more extreme rating for that OARS section. Multiple items may be specified, and they will replace the user’s current app filter in entirety. If zero items are specified, the app filter is cleared.

--allow-user-installation

Allow the user to install flatpaks to their user repository.

--disallow-user-installation

Disallow the user from installing flatpaks to their user repository.

--allow-system-installation

Allow the user to install flatpaks to the system repository.

--disallow-system-installation

Disallow the user from installing flatpaks to the system repository.

-q, --quiet

Only output error messages, and no informational messages, as the operation progresses. (Default: Output informational messages.)

-n, --no-interactive

Do not allow interactive authorization with polkit. If this is needed to complete the operation, the operation will fail. (Default: Allow interactive authorization.)

Get the value set for a specific OARS section from the app filter of the given user. For example:

USER

Username or ID of the user to get the OARS filter for. If not specified, the current user will be used by default.

SECTION

OARS section to get the restriction level of the given user for. For example, language-profanity.

-q, --quiet

Only output error messages, and no informational messages, as the operation progresses. (Default: Output informational messages.)

-n, --no-interactive

Do not allow interactive authorization with polkit. If this is needed to complete the operation, the operation will fail. (Default: Allow interactive authorization.)

Get the session limits set for a user. For example:

USER

Username or ID of the user to get the session limits for. If not specified, the current user will be used by default.

-q, --quiet

Only output error messages, and no informational messages, as the operation progresses. (Default: Output informational messages.)

-n, --no-interactive

Do not allow interactive authorization with polkit. If this is needed to complete the operation, the operation will fail. (Default: Allow interactive authorization.)

--now yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ

Check session limits (in particular, session expiry time) against the given date/time, provided in ISO 8601 format. (Default: Current date/time.)

Monitor changes to the parental controls settings for a specific user. For example:

USER

Username or ID of the user to monitor the parental controls for. If not specified, the current user will be used by default.

-q, --quiet

Only output error messages, and no informational messages, as the operation progresses. (Default: Output informational messages.)

malcontent-client supports the standard GLib environment variables for debugging. These variables are not intended to be used in production:

$G_MESSAGES_DEBUG

This variable can contain one or more debug domain names to display debug output for. The value all will enable all debug output. The default is for no debug output to be enabled.

malcontent-client may return one of several error codes if it encounters problems.

0

No problems occurred. The utility ran and successfully queried the app filter. If running the check-app-filter command, the given path, content type or flatpak ref was allowed for the given user.

1

An invalid option was passed to malcontent-client on startup.

2

The current user was not authorized to query the app filter for the given user.

3

If running the check-app-filter command, the given path, content type or flatpak ref was not allowed for the given user.

4

Malcontent is disabled at the system level, and hence parental controls are not enabled or enforced.

5

An operation failed and no more specific error information is available.

Any bugs which are found should be reported on the project website:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent/-/issues

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