How to Setup a Secure Guest Account [was] Password-protecting fedora.

Colin Charles linux at bytebot.net
Mon Mar 15 10:48:25 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 02:13, Matt Morgan wrote:
> You also, for a shared login like that, should use a browser in a kiosk 
> mode that doesn't allow changes to settings, history, etc. Unless you 
> want to clean it up occasionally. Opera has a very good kiosk mode. 
> Mozilla/Firefox has a lot of potential, but the kiosk modes I know about 
> aren't there yet. When we do this at work (a big museum) it's usually 
> for web-connected kiosk stations that we can't have porn, etc., popping 
> up on. Also we don't want to fix them all the time. But at the moment we 
> use MS Windows stations with severely restricted system policies for 
> this, we haven't done a linux one yet.

GNOME's kiosk mode will work in GNOME 2.6.
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