<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>This is my first posting here, so be gentle. I've read through this post and the responses, and it seems to me that you've all overlooked an obvious solution...or else I've missed something. Wouldn't this be the perfect place for a Live CD? Most distributions have a Live CD option, and virtually all of them come with OpenOffice, CUPS, and a browser already installed and configured. Access to the hard drive is not enabled by default, and you could probably remove the hard drive if you wanted to. Configure BIOS to always boot from the CD, lock the BIOS with a password, and keep spare copies of the Live CD handy in case one walks away.<br><br>Users would be able to:<br>1) browse the web;<br>2) Use OpenOffice;<br>3) Print documents;<br>4) Save files to a thumb drive.<br><br>Users would not be able to access the hard drive. If anyone mucks up the configuration settings in memory, you simply reboot from the LiveCD.<br><br>Did I miss something?<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------<br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:53:49 -0500 (CDT)<br>From: Allen
Kiddoo <adk@52761.com><br>Subject: [Cialug] Kiosk suggestions?<br>To:
Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug@cialug.org><br>Message-ID:
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text/plain; charset=utf-8<br><br>I need to lock down a public box used
at a local church.<br>Want to allow browser, openoffice, and printing.<br>Also
have access to media player for mp3 and video.<br>Limit file saving to
external thumb drive.<br><br>Has anyone done something similar? Any
links?<br>Searching has revealed little.<br><br>Allen Kiddoo<br>Muscatine<adk@52761.com><cialug@cialug.org><newz@bearfruit.org><cialug@cialug.org><aanlktim9gdcwo6qsfteybme64eqk3l-91qv7qpzusem8@mail.gmail.com><adk@52761.com></adk@52761.com></aanlktim9gdcwo6qsfteybme64eqk3l-91qv7qpzusem8@mail.gmail.com></cialug@cialug.org></newz@bearfruit.org></cialug@cialug.org></adk@52761.com></body></html>