On Friday 26 September 2003 08:22, Craig Main wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to diable the above to stop people getting to a console? > I am busy setting up some boxes to be used in an internet cafe and am > trying to secure them and only allow certain apps to be run. (maybe > there is a "kiosk" distro that I don't know about? > > Any Ideas?
Maybe this is not the simplest way, but let's try: I think you could disable <CTRL>+<ALT>+<F?> altogether. Just edit the keymap include file named (on my box at least) "linux-keys-bare.inc", in the /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/include directory, and comment out or remove the lines that bind <CTRL>+<ALT>+<F?> sequences to console switching. These line look someting like the following: control alt keycode 59 = Console_1 control alt keycode 60 = Console_2 control alt keycode 61 = Console_3 control alt keycode 62 = Console_4 etc... Warning: changing this file will also affect all the keymaps that include it (nearly all I think). Also, if you use kde, maybe this can help you to turn your installation into a kiosk-like one, look here: http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?rev=1.18.2.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Bye -- "640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
