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.
Hi other-Neil :)
The sort of thing you're after is to not run gdm (the login tool) at init state 5 (where it runs X), but, I would think, just 'su guest mozilla' or somesuch (you'll need to set up a can't-do-much-damage 'guest' user for this).
I only have access to a RH7.,2 machine here, so let's have a look-see ...
OK, without being able to actually try it out, you'd want *something* like:
/etc/sysconfig/desktop: preferred=/usr/local/bin/fullscreenmozilla
/usr/local/bin/fullscreenmozilla: #!/bin/bash X :0 & while [ 1 ]; do mozilla http://localhost/ done
You'll need to disable the <Alt-Ctrl> terminal logins, and have a pasword-protected grub entry for init 3 (text login) so from where you could run gnome manually or whatever.
THat's the rock-bottom simplest solution I'd start with; there're probably a whole slew of clever emedments you could make.
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