Re: [LI] Public Web browsing station

[Swapan Sarkar <swapan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read the MINI HOWTO and I donot think it will solve your problem.
There are 2
approaches to solve your problem.
1) Make Netscape as the only application executable on guest account.
For that
you have to run XDM/KDM for login purposes and make 'netscape' as the
shell
for user 'guest' in /etc/passwd file. You can change that using
'usermod' command.
However you can skip the XDM/KDM part by making X run just after a user
login
in CLI mode. This is little more difficult and you have to read some
documents
for that.
2) In a normal login the file .profile is called before the shell is
invoked.
You should be able to invoke X and netscape through .profile and make an
exit
whenever the user comes out of netscape (which now sort of embeds in
.profile)
Read the appropriate documents for login and .profile
I both cases you would still need some of the other configurations
specified
in the mini howto.

HTH
-swaps

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:28:03 +0530
From: Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil <sun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LI] Public Web browsing station

Hi
    In our university  we have a number of public web browsing stations
running
on  Nt workstation. I was trying to set up  a similar on linux. RHL 6
with
KDE .    The machine should open  only netcsape when looged in as public
and should
logout  if I close netscape . All other keys and functions are disabled
and
public can only browse ( all other O/S  faciilities are with held)

I  have followed instruction in  Public web browser mini howto. found on
PCQ
March98 I have set up a guest account which when loged in opens netscape
by
default .But my problem is the if  i close nescape i  am back in kde  (
not
logging out) and all keys are  restored

 Has anybody out there  done this please help me

Sunil

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