[Kde-kiosk] Hello!

[Bill Kendrick]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:40:31PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> 
> Use Mozilla as 'Login-Shell'.
> 
> This means, when you boot the machine, nothing will appear as 
> a simplest desktop (some puristic window-manager) and mozilla 
> is started automatically.
> 
> When mozilla is killed, it also restarts automatically.
> 
> We had 40 such configured machines on the LinuxTag-event in 
> our internet-cafè, and nobody could damage anything (but 
> hardware, of course).

Is Mozilla still able to do things like "Save Image As",
open arbitrary files on the hard disk, etc.?

I'd like to make that impossible.  (That's the problem with the current
Windows NT + Netscape 4 solution they have now.  Sure, NT is locked down
fairly well, but I could totally screw the machine over by saving well-chosen
files into well-chosen places on the box.  On Linux this is hard, thanks to
it being multi-user, but I don't want one dork breaking the main login.)


> This is Linux. Use it!

Heh... This is a P233.  Konqueror's barely fast enough.  I can't
imagine Mozilla being. :^)


PS - I did look at some persons work on setting up Mozilla as a Kiosk.
It was quite unusable, and _damned_ butt-ugly.  I didn't have the
time or inclination to look into tweaking his work, especially after
I discovered the Kiosk framework in KDE3.

-bill!