The last link that Alex sent looks like just about perfect: http://www.alandmoore.com/blog/2011/11/05/creating-a-kiosk-with-linux-and-x11-2011-edition/
The blogger seems to make the same point that Tony did: instead of worrying about an absolute lock down, periodically copy all your default profiles/scripts to erase any unwanted tracks. Thanks for the suggestions! On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com>wrote: > On 06/12/2012 06:00 PM, Tony Cratz wrote: > > On 06/12/2012 05:58 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > >> I will take a look at the freecode site you mentioned. > >> > >> They kiosk will be used to access the internet. I am not too concerned > >> with restricting what sites that they visit. Rather, I want to prevent > >> permanent damage/corruption of the host computer. > > > > Well, in that case, build up a PXE server and do a fresh > > install of the OS each day. Even think about moving to using > > SSD drives instead of normal hard drive. > > > > > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > > Kiosk distro > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=webconverger > > More discussion and links > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1891594&highlight=kiosk > > > Enjoy, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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