Hi James,
I might be talking off the top of my head here, but what you could have is a
modified version of the X login screen, where the only button available is
"Hello" or something (rather than user/passwd).
This logs in user "kiosk" who has a restricted shell and a .profile that
only runs Netscape or whatever.
So after you press Hello, you get the browser. If you manage to minimise the
browser, you get a special X display that does not allow anything other than
logging out. No saving of defaults or anything from the browser. No
switching between displays.
You probably want to remove and re-write Kiosk's personal saved pages and
images from something safe (eg the UTS home page) as they log out, so the
next person starts afresh.
The initial "Hello" display could live in one of the startup scripts in
init.d so that it starts up after a power failure.
Maintenance would be via ssh login on the ethernet only, not the user
keyboard. You might want to have a daemon that checks to see that the X
screen is still running, and if not, re-starts it.
Whatever you do, it's gotta be better than the thing I saw on an old display
at the Powerhouse Museum that was forlornly sitting asking for someone to
"Insert boot disk"
Cheers,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
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Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
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