This is great (and so is linuxtoday.com <g>)
--suresh
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
Jamie Zawinski/DNA Lounge: Diskless Linux Kiosks
> Jamie Zawinski wanted to set up public Internet kiosks for his club that went
> beyond the usual "web browser only" routine, providing full access to telnet,
> ssh, IRC, and instant messaging. He solved his problem using the ThinkNIC
> 'net appliance, GNOME, and NFS. This is more than a simple feature: he
> provides a fairly complete recipe.
> "One of the things I want to do here at the DNA Lounge is have public kiosks
> that people can use for web browsing, IRC, AIM, and so on. When most people
> set up kiosks, they tend to try and lock them down so that you can only run
> a web browser, but that's a little too limiting, since I want people to be
> able to run other applications too (telnet, ssh, irc, and so on.) So
> really, I wanted to give access to a complete desktop system. But do so
> safely and reliably.
> I decided to set them up as Linux systems running the GNOME desktop,
> preconfigured with all the common applications people might want to run.
> However, I needed to figure out a way to make the system robust enough that
> one user couldn't screw it up for another, on purpose or accidentally. The
> system would need to be locked down enough that it was easy to reset it to
> a working state. "
[the rest snipped - the article's a bit long]
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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