If you're interested in using the default Gnome interface, you can use the configuration editor to take care of that. Such an option is detailed here:<br><br><a href="http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/06/how-to-lock-down-gnome-panel-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/" target="_blank">http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/06/how-to-lock-down-gnome-panel-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/</a><br>
<br>A step toward keeping users out of the hard drive is to prevent them from goofing up the GUI in the first place. While certain files have to remain read-only, the ones that do shouldn't become much of a hazard. Also, putting a password in GRUB and making that configuration file invisible to read will prevent unsanitary hard drive reads.<br>
<br><a href="http://beginlinux.com/server_training/linux-terminal-server/1058-lock-down-user-privileges">http://beginlinux.com/server_training/linux-terminal-server/1058-lock-down-user-privileges</a><br><br>-Scott<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Aaron Porter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atporter@gmail.com" target="_blank">atporter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Josh More<br>
<<a href="mailto:MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net" target="_blank">MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is certainly true, but it comes at the cost of producing error messages that, depending on the user base, could result in complaints and phonecalls. That's one of the reasons I've adopted a reset approach. Let the system work the way it wants to, and wipe it clean regularly.<br>
<br>
</div>Purging after use still leaves you with stuff on disk, which could be<br>
frustrating or possibly open all sorts of exposure issues (if the<br>
system resets nightly, what about the pr0n some teen left in ~/ for 16<br>
hours?). Purging ~ after logout + some sort of auto-logout on idle<br>
would be better. I've never had to do office + browsing, but non-user<br>
owned ~ + firefox + R-kiosk keeps those error-messages at bay. Not<br>
sure what OpenOffice support you'll find.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1659/" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1659/</a><br>
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