Why bother with all this "lockdown" on Linux? A guest login, sure, I see not wanting people to change that. Different people want different things and someone's settings are sure to displease someone else. Can't you use Linux to your advantage here?
Why not give patrons real user accounts so that they can change things as they please without bothering anyone else? It would be nice if each user could leave notes for themselves in the library, mail or ssh them to their home and vice versa. You might even let them login from home and browse the collection. Once you have a "guest" account, you can use it for skeleton files and to wipe the /home/guest after each use. Everyone else can have 20MB of some 200GB storage disk on site and whatever they please. On Thursday 06 May 2004 05:39 pm, Brad Bendily wrote: > When I say "lockdown" stuff. I mean, I don't want people to open the home > directory and save files. I don't want them to change the background on > the desktop. I don't want them to change the home page in the web browser. > > There's basically a list of things you don't want people changing when a > computer is in a public access area. In windows it's pretty difficult to > modify IE so that it doesn't show the Tools menu option, but with Firefox > it was mostly a piece of cake. The hardest part was testing and switching > back and forth so much to make sure I had it just the way I wanted. > > The guys from Maryland will be sending me a copy of their CD. If anyone > wants a copy let me know. > > BB >
