Re: Securing Linux based public access terminals

["E.Scichilone" <ens () telsh de>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:48:33PM +0100, Andrew Shore wrote:
> Hi 
>
> I have a project where I need to give access to the internet to groups
> of users who do not work for the company running the workstations.
> Hence, the company do not want the users to access any other part of the
> network. For reasons too complicated to go into here I can't hive this
> portion of the network off onto a DMZ or even a secure vlan.
>
> 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 ;)
Good idea, indeed :)
Have you given a windowanager like the before mentioned blackbox,
fluxbox or windowmanager a try? Probably the settings in a xinitrc and a
chroot is all you need, though I have not done it before...

Have fun!
enrico

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