On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:15 +0800, HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 12:26 +0000, Pete Savage wrote: > > Hi, I work in a school and want to make a help point using, fc3, being a > > very avid fc3 user. I'm creating a point and click interface in html and > > using firefox. I have some code to disable the right click. but by doing > > some random button pressing, the little darlings can still get the command > > bar up down the bottom, and hence get into the system > > Is there a way to disable the application switching....they have no keyboard > > just a mouse...all I basically want is to totally disable them leaving > > mozilla an nothing else, > > any ideas !? > > Pete > If you really only need firefox (and there possibly only one window, > only leaving people the choice to open multiple tabs), you could: > > - Create a GRUB boot entry to boot into runlevel 4 by adding "4" to the > respective "kernel"-line in /etc/grub.conf > - auto-login user "darling" on tty 6 in run-level 4 by adding > "darl:4:respawn"/sbin/mingetty --autologin darling tty6" > - Start a script in X when user darling logs in on tty6 by adding the > following to the end of /home/darling/.bash_profile: > case "`tty`" in > /dev/tty6) ~/startme.sh;; > esac > - The script be firing up firefox in an X session and, upon termination > of firefox, automagically shutting down X, logging the user out (upon > which he'd be logged in again and the sequence start anew). You'd put > this into /home/darling/startme.sh: > #!/bin/bash > xinit /usr/bin/firefox > logout > > You wouldn't get a WM that way, but do you really need one? > > Your next task will be to possibly chrooting "darling", as an inclined > user can always do a "file-open" and just browse to anywhere within the > system path... > Rather than chrooting (though that may be a good idea still), you should investigate how to restrict what options are availible to the user in firefox. Here we have a bank of thin clients that let the user run firefox but have all but the file and edit menus disabled. In the about:config page, there are options set to not store anything to disk. The config files are also read only, as far as I can tell.
