Re: Securing Linux based public access terminals

["mr.happy" <sadplanet () chello be>]

The thing is, you don't have to run a window manager.
when the machine boots and the user logs in you could just put 'firefox'
or something into the xinitrc file and then only firefox will run. There
will be _no_ window support what so ever, and newly opened windows will
all 'stick' to the upper left corner of the screen, give it a try...

greets,
Dirk

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:48, Andrew Shore wrote:
> What I would like to is run a Linux workstation (RedHat probably 9 even
> though it's out of support) but when the user logs into the windows
> session all they get is the browser. No menus no right click on the desk
> top just a basic single application "dumb terminal". I've seen this done
> before but it was too well secured for me to see how it was done! Also
> I'd like to the workstation to log straight in as a local user with out
> user intervention.
>
> Any ideas how I can achieve this or perhaps secure it in another way, I
> remember with windows 3.x you could change the windows manager settings
> in win.ini and it did exactly what I want. I just really don't want to
> use Windows 3.1 ;)

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