On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Zoilo wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 18:17, John_Cuzzola wrote:
> > *** Well thinking about it a little further another possibility (without
> > running local apps) is simply to create a change rooted environment for
> > Netscape that doesn't contain an /etc/passwd file. You can then use the
> > chroot command to launch netscape.
> 
> I was thinking in that direction too, but I am afraid that it may turn out 
> to be quite complicated.
> 
> For a small kiosk-application, only running Netscape or similar, I would 
> still need (a link to) the Netscape binary, icewm, all the necessary 
> libraries, icons etc etc; and I need to configure everything to work properly 
> with the chrooted pathnames.


*** I'm not sure but I didn't think it would be that hard. All you need is
Netscape in a chrooted environment. ICE and the rest would be left alone. 









> 
> But I think it's the only way to go if I run apps on the server.
> 
> That's why I was thinking of running local apps on the client, since all that 
> work has essentially been done there already. Assuming that the visible file 
> system is then limited to the ltsp root-fs (/opt/ltsp/i386), am I correct?
> 
> Z.
> 



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