Re: Gnome/Mozilla for an Internet Cafe

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux <aliensoldier home com>]

Hello,

You should ask this over at the gnome-list gnome org

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HCI, etc relating to GNOME.


See ya

     Charles Iliya Krempeaux



On 31 Jul 2001 20:32:22 -0500, Jim Roland wrote:
> I'm trying to use Mozilla 0.9.2 for an internet cafe client of mine.  I've
> convinced them to go from Win2000 to Linux, but Win2000 was under a policy
> configuration such that the only app available was Internet Explorer 5.x and
> additional browser windows were disallowed.  Certain URLs were also disabled
> and local drive access was disabled.
> 
> It's running under a customized RedHat Linux 7.1 (Linux Terminal Server
> Project) and I need Mozilla to do the following but can't seem to find a way
> to make it work.  I'm running gnome/sawfish/nautilus for a window manager
> with only Mozilla the running app (no taskbar, etc).  I need to make the
> following happen:
> 
> 1) Menubar disappear (preferably) or at least be able to turn off certain
> items like configuration settings, etc.  Need to keep users from using
> "File" "Edit", etc.
> 2) Mozilla only in browser mode (no news, no mail, none of the other
> "applications").
> 3) Need to make Mozilla maxmize on each run.  Apparently the -height -width
> and -splash options don't work on the command line.
> 4) I need to restrict certain URLs from being typed (eg, file:///,
> telnet://, news://, etc.  only allow http:// and https://)
> 5) I need to disallow additional windows from popping up (prevent users from
> getting a "new browser window").
> 6) Prevent users from exiting Mozilla (I can restrict minimizing by not
> runing the window manager).
> 
> ------------------
> 
> How can I make this happen?  How much of this can I do in Gnome?
> I would prefer to completely lock down the "guest" home directory but found
> that ~ (home dir itself) and gnome directories (.gnome, .gconf, etc) must me
> left writable by the guest account, otherwise gnome won't come up at all.
> How can I make them all completely read only?
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> (Please reply to the group and to my email address, thanks)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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