On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I set up a donated computer for homeless adults who live in a > warehouse, and I would like to secure the desktop. The computer is > using Etch, with Gnome. > > The issue is that one of the residents will create hundreds of new > "untitled folders" on the desktop. Further, she'll mess around with > the panels, the shortcuts on the desktops, and sometimes change the > permissions on the home directory (ie, making the /home/guest directory > inaccessible, making booting into that user on the computer impossible > until I'm there to change it back). gdm is set up to automatically > boot into the guest user, without requiring a password. There is just > the one user for everyone (and root for me, when necessary). > I guess it depends on what they use the computer for. If it is only for browsing the web and using webmail, then you might want to consider looking at kiosktool (for KDE) or pessulus (for GNOME). I've not used either personally, but I have seen machines running KDE in kiosk mode and the setup is quite nice. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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