Re: Securing Linux based public access terminals

[Ant <cable78 () gmail com>]

Give the Blackbox window manager a try. Not sure about non
interventive logins though.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:48:33 +0100, Andrew Shore
<andrew.shore () holistecs com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a project where I need to give access to the internet to groups
> of users who do not work for the company running the workstations.
> Hence, the company do not want the users to access any other part of the
> network. For reasons too complicated to go into here I can't hive this
> portion of the network off onto a DMZ or even a secure vlan.
>
> What I would like to is run a Linux workstation (RedHat probably 9 even
> though it's out of support) but when the user logs into the windows
> session all they get is the browser. No menus no right click on the desk
> top just a basic single application "dumb terminal". I've seen this done
> before but it was too well secured for me to see how it was done! Also
> I'd like to the workstation to log straight in as a local user with out
> user intervention.
>
> Any ideas how I can achieve this or perhaps secure it in another way, I
> remember with windows 3.x you could change the windows manager settings
> in win.ini and it did exactly what I want. I just really don't want to
> use Windows 3.1 ;)
>
> TIA
>
> Andy
>
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