[Cialug] Kiosk suggestions?

[Scott Prader]

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:

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/06/how-to-lock-down-gnome-panel-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/

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.

http://beginlinux.com/server_training/linux-terminal-server/1058-lock-down-user-privileges

-Scott

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Aaron Porter <atporter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Josh More
> <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Purging after use still leaves you with stuff on disk, which could be
> frustrating or possibly open all sorts of exposure issues (if the
> system resets nightly, what about the pr0n some teen left in ~/ for 16
> hours?). Purging ~ after logout + some sort of auto-logout on idle
> would be better. I've never had to do office + browsing, but non-user
> owned ~ + firefox + R-kiosk keeps those error-messages at bay. Not
> sure what OpenOffice support you'll find.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1659/
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