Re: Setting up very restricted accounts

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:13 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> >
> > > My Debian machine has a dual boot setup with GRUB.
> > >
> > > It boots by default Debian but GRUB also has a choice at the bottom 
> > > for XP.
> > >
> > > XP is there mostly for my children games.
> > >
> > > I would like to setup things so that in case they poweron the 
> > > machine and do not select XP in time and end up at the GDM screen, 
> > > their userid and password will just reboot the machine (they are 
> > > both used to typing their userid and password even the 5 yr old :->).
> > >
> > > What is the simplest way to do so or any pointers to doc ?
> Or if you want to leave GDM, put "exit 0" in  their ~/.xinitrc files 
> (I'm not sure this will work, but I'd try it).
The more I think about this, the less I think it'll work.  
Alternatively, install sudo, set up your kids as sudoers, giving them 
only the ability to reboot, without a password, then put "reboot" in 
their ~/.xinitrc files.

(Or "shutdown -r now" or "shutdown -h now" instead of "reboot".)

Or change the grub default to go into Windows by default.

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Kent