Thanks Patrick,

 

I've got Firefox locked down pretty hard. Kiosk mode, no short-cut keys,
no address bar, very few buttons etc.

 

I'd already fixed one security issue in the Sun Ray JDS kiosk mode a
while ago (I could start Mozilla even when there were no apps listed for
kiosk mode) but now there's this new one.

 

Was hoping someone had already fixed it before I had to hunt it down
myself.

 

Cheers,

Antony.

 

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University of Western Sydney.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2009 8:46 AM
To: SunRay-Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Kiosk mode security problem?

 

Hi,

you could use CDE (Obsolete) instead of the JDS kiosk and startup
firefox from there.
You still need to harden firefox to be a real kiosk; there are some
howto's available on that, because you would still be able to open, file
in firefox and browse your local fs.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Antony Healey <[email protected]>
wrote:

Dear all,

 

I've been using the Kiosk mode with the only application (as 'Critical')
being Firefox. To my mind, this should mean that Firefox is the only
thing the user can see/use.

 

Yet we've discovered that if you "right-click" on the Orange menu
button, you can open up a floating menu and "Browse" is available. You
can then browse the local file system.

 

That hardly qualifies as 'kiosk' in my mind. Can anyone recommend an
easy way to prevent this from happening, is there a place to turn this
off for all kiosk-mode users?

 

Thanks,

Antony.

 

_______________________________

Antony Healey
Senior Systems Administrator (UNIX)
Information Technology Services
University of Western Sydney.
T: 02 9678 7014
F: 02 9678 7111
M: 0410 564 632
E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 

 


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