Jeremy, One thought I had would be to make all the volatile portions of the environment based on VDISKs and have the machine IPL CMS and populate the VDISKs with a default environment using DDR or similar tool, then IPL Linux. You bring the the machine up, they play with their app, and you log it off after they are done playing. Any modifications vanish when the Linux machine logs off, and you're back to the pristine state next time someone needs to use the demonstration system. Tdisk would also work, but VDISK is easier to define and manage, I'd think.
If by "read-only", you mean have an app running against live data, but be unable to modify it, that's going to take work on your application to obey a read=only flag of some kind. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Post, Mark K > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Read-Only Telnet > > > Jeremy, > > You're a little too vague (for me) about what you mean by "so > they can look > at an application." Do you mean you want to be able to demo > something for > them? Do you only want to allow them to see the output of > the application? > (In that case, generating HTML output and having them point their web > browser at the system might be quickest/easiest.) Something > else entirely? > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Read-Only Telnet > > > Does anyone know of a simple/quick way to setup a GUARANTEED read-only > access to a linux guest? > > Maybe some type of read-only telnet/ssh daemon? I couldn't > find a switch > to either of them. > > Basically I need to grant read-only access to a system to a > group of users > so they can look at an application, > > However the user/group/world file permissions for other > reasons don't allow > me to guarantee that these users will have read-only. > > > TIA! > > > ------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Warren > Sr. Systems Programmer > KB Toy Stores > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@kbtoys.com >
