On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi! > > Under Windows NT it using the policy editor it was very easy to > effectively restrict users to certain applications, for instance just > a web browser. > > To be more concrete: I would like to have a user which can only login > into a graphical desktop and there only can start a web browser > (firefox) and print from it. > Kiosk mode under KDE, perhaps? If user is logging in via ssh
- forced command in their key in the authorized_keys file (presumably just startx / startkde). Heavily edited bash .profile with the only path being that to firefox? This doesn't stop someone using firefox to fill in web forms or whatever. HTH, Andy > What would be the best/easiest way to do this under Debian? Could you > provide me a pointer to some documentation (some kind of HOWTO) where > the procedure you recommend is explained with some detail? > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > Andreas Goesele > > -- > Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, > nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. > Augustinus, De doctrina christiana > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
