[Cialug] Kiosk suggestions?

[Josh More]

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.

This is clearly not a good solution in a business environment, where malware and the like could spread from system to system, but on a dedicated kiosk system the risk is a lot less... especially if you use the appropriate Firefox plugins (RequestPolicy, NoScript, AdBlock) and use private browsing.


-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Aaron Porter [atporter at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 16:19
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Kiosk suggestions?

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Allen Kiddoo <adk at 52761.com> wrote:
> I think between the Pessulus docs and resetting the home directory we have a winner.
> Thank guys!

You can get a lot of that benefit simply by removing write access to
the users homedir. Careful use of permissions (.mozilla springs to
mind), but this shouldn't be too hard to get working.
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