RE: Securing Linux based public access terminals
From: Rocky Heckman (rocky.he_at_g-wizinnovations.com)
Date: 07/21/04
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To: <brett@cs.jhu.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:51:19 +1000
Oops my bad. I had read too many posts and got my OSes confused. Sorry.
RH
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Anderson [mailto:brett@cs.jhu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:43 PM
To: Rocky Heckman
Cc: 'mr.happy'; security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Securing Linux based public access terminals
I don't think that that would apply in this redhat(or other linux) based
configuration.
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:00, Rocky Heckman wrote:
> So how will this work with the new Longhorn/Whidbey products that are
coming
> out that require a window to display chrome? It also requires the window
to
> be displayed in the viewable area which rules out sizing it bigger than
the
> viewport.
>
> R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Anderson [mailto:brett@cs.jhu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2004 6:39 AM
> To: mr.happy
> Cc: security-basics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Securing Linux based public access terminals
>
> The window manager, ratpoison, is essentially the same except that it
> makes things a bit more usable. There are no window decorations and main
> windows are full-screen. Sub-windows such as a find dialog or a download
> box, would be nicely centered in the middle of the screen. It is very
> minimal but with simple and intuitive presentation. As I mentioned
> before, you would have to remove the command that allows you to run new
> programs.
>
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 07:16, mr.happy wrote:
> > The thing is, you don't have to run a window manager.
> > when the machine boots and the user logs in you could just put 'firefox'
> > or something into the xinitrc file and then only firefox will run. There
> > will be _no_ window support what so ever, and newly opened windows will
> > all 'stick' to the upper left corner of the screen, give it a try...
> >
> > greets,
> > Dirk
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:48, Andrew Shore wrote:
> > > 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 ;)
>
>
>
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