Re: HELP: kiosk web pcs

ric wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've a project to stick a couple of public access web terminals into
> an area of our business. For various legal and practical reasons,
> they're isolated from our lan and are going to be standalones
> connected to an adsl router.

I've seen a distribution that boots from CD and has a "mozilla"
environment: this might suit you.



> * can someone give me a blow-by-blow guide to locking down linux?
> ideally i'd like the PC to auto-login to a user account that just
> launced Mozilla or similar, and didn't let them write anything
> permanent to the drive - possibly use a script to clear out \usr on
> boot?

A normal user is usually limited to their home directory and /tmp for a
default linux install. Clearing /usr should not be required. It should
be possible to lock down what is possible from an X session (remove all
menu items, only let the user run a restricted shell should they get a
prompt.



> a step-by-step guide for the educated layman would be very very
> useful.

Might be worth lokking at http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html to see if
there's a distribution that fits your needs.


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