On Sep 29, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > Hi, > > I am donating two Ubuntu 14.04 machines to a homeless shelter. The shelter > would like to prevent the residents from writing any documents to the hard > drive. The shelter wants to have residents download stuff to flash drives > they are giving the residents. Googling, I find nothing directly on point. > Any help is welcome. > > I did find this > > http://forums.linuxvoice.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=147 > > Which talks about locking down the user settings, but it does not prevent > writing to the hard drive. > > Thanks! > > -- > Christian Einfeldt > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
If you want to prevent the user from writing to the hard drive, you might try using the guest session capability mentioned in another post and setting the system so it gives no permissions to the guest user, something like... sudo mkdir -m ---------- /var/guest-data Please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizeGuestSession and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Numeric_notation Good luck. -- Mark Weisler PGP Key ID 68E462B6 PGP Key fingerprint 87D5 A77B FC47 3CC3 DFF0 586D 23FF F8B4 68E4 62B6
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