create a restricted user

[Phillip T. George]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>On 6/4/05, Zacharie Elcor <zelcor at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I think I found a way to do it :
>>In my visitor's .bashrc, I added :
>>
>>if [ -z $DISPLAY ]
>>then
>>logout
>>fi
>>
>>If the visitor tries to log in graphically, he can only do what
>>firefox allows him to do (perhaps should I use a more simple browser
>>because of extensions my visitor could add) and if he tries to log in
>>via ctrl-alt-f1, he is logged out immediately.
>>
>>
>>On 2/7/05, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 08:37, Zacharie Elcor wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>If I chroot the restricted user, what are the minimum commands that
>>>>should be available in order for him to be able to run firefox ? is a
>>>>shell required ?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Figure on including firefox and whatever plugins you allow them to use.
>>>The nice thing is that you can pick and choose.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Scot L. Harris
>>>webid at cfl.rr.com
>>>
>>>nohup rm -fr /&
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>The question came up as to whether or not this is for a kiosk-type
>machine. If so, I would recommend the Opera browser, because:
>1) It displays sites very similar to a certain browser that many
>people as familiar with.
>2) It has a kiosk mode.
>3) It does NOT have the extensions that you worry about in firefox.
>4) It can be easily configured to enable/disable JS, java, etc...
>
>The only problems that you may have are the advertising in the top
>(though you could buy it to remove the advertising) and the fact that Hotmail blocks Opera. I have not found a way to fool hotmail into
>thinking that the browser is not Opera.
>
>
>  
>

Hotmail blocks Opera?...why..what sense does that make?

-Phillip
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