You must think that you will have some pretty linux savey public users. Just an opinion, but since most of the public users say to a library or school will be windows users, wouldn't a more windows like interface work better. Why not use KDE, remove the logout button from the panel. In most public libraries and such, the staff turn everything on and login prior to opening, at least they do here. Set up an account for public use. Use Netscape as most would be familiar with it for internet. Set it up to start in X then edit the login manager to only show the one account. This way if someone does manage to logout of X, they only have the one option. You can edit the keymap to elimenate any specific key combinations that you want. Ron On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Hi!, my exact purpose is to use a computer to access internet in a > public place. As you can imagine, security problems arise when planning > to do something like this, beside I'm a Linux fanatic.... I MUST use > Linux for this. > This is what I already have and where I need some explanations. > > I'm planning to use WindowMaker, since this is the window enviroment > where I can customize more things, so I already have a very limited > system where you can only run Netscape or any other navigator. The only > problem I've found is that if you use right button on the window title > you can edit the window's properties, and that also happend on the dock > aplication. Is it posible to ignore right button? > I'm planning to use Galeon as Navigator, but I'm still testing, nothing > have arise yet. > Next thing, I'd like that on Linux boot, a X console appears with a > 'default' user logged in, better that any kind of login nor password. > I'd try to disable Ctrl+Alt keys and let then be used only when > configuring the box. Some clue? I know something is possible since > Mandrake instalation makes something similar, but of course, I won't > like to boot on single user mode, since the 'default user' would have > root privileges and that's not a good idea in a public place. > > I know i'm just on my firt steps with this 'project' but I'd like to > beat those people who defend a Micro$oft solution for this idea. > > Thanks in advance. Berni. > > -- > La frase c�lebre para hoy es .... > > Los viejos astronautas nunca mueren, simplemente se van a otro mundo. > > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Ron Marriage Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/
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