On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 12:38, Neil Marjoram wrote: > I have been given an idea by someone to come up with a system that when > booted starts up into a Netscape / Mozilla full screen mode secure > terminal, without the ability for anyone to get in 'behind' the browser. > > If this can be done easily we are looking at replacing and adding to the > public interactive terminals around the museum. This would be a > wonderful coup for Linux within the museum, and help to gain more > acceptance of it's use, both internally and to the public. We already > employ RH7.3 for the front end web server, DNS etc, now I want everyone > to see it! > > I have been told it can be done, so anyone have any ideas ? quick&dirty: set up a guest account with a restricted shell and a "exec mozilla/netscape/whatever" in its (read-only) .bashrc, then give it write permission to cache directory only and disallow login to ttys A better way would be to start the browser directly from inittab with respawn but I've never tried anything like this.... Piero -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
