eKiosk
Hi, I have several old computers (P-II, 233mhz, 128mb ram) that I want to make them into kiosk, more specifically I need the computers to open up a browser in full screen in a specific website and they can only browse that website (I think I know how to make it so it brose only one website) but the problem is that I need it to lock everything else, they cannot go into the browser preferences or quit the browser, any Ideas on how to do this? Another question would be which Distribution to use for these computers, I was thinking Gentoo. Thanks.
btw...this computers are going to be used in a library and should only browse the library catolog. -Luis R. |
Hmm... IIRC, you can run a program directly under X, without a window-manager. I don't remember how to do that though, but you can probably look it up somewhere on this site.
What I would do is have the command to do this inside of a loop in the login script of a user account on that computer (as tempting as it may be, do not set up your kiosk so that your day-to-day users are root... if somebody figures out how to break out of our loop, that would be huge trouble for you). Anyway, your script should do the following (this is psuedo-code, not any particular lanugaue): Code:
exit=0; Also, if you want to let it only access the library catalog, set up a firewall using iptables and allow just the appropriate server(s) and block everything else. |
Hey, Smart, I didn't know you can do that, I need to learn more Bash Programming, I'll try it anyways, and Hope it works. Thanks, feel free to give more ideas :).
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No problem.
I'm away from my Linux box at the moment... this evening, when I'm there and able to test things, I'll try to give you more detailed instructions. |
Hmm... this is easier to set up than I thought. I've already got the main script written. I'll write a few little things to go with it to help set it up, and then put the whole thing in a package for you. I should have it up sometime either this evening or tomorrow evening.
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Hey, Thanks ALOT oot, I really appreciate what youre doing, I've been testing somethings too but your idea for locking it is the best, I'll check your code when you send it and I can try adding somethings, again Thanks.
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You're welcome. It's a fun challenge to work on this.
I wound up putting together a package of scripts useful for running a kiosk that I've named QuickLinuxKiosk. You can download it here . Please be sure to follow the instructions in "INSTALL" before running setup. I'll probably be making improved versions of this later... email me if you want update announcements. |
Hey, Sorry I haven't posted back or given you any feedback or whatever but I'm in the process of moving to a new appartment and its going to take like one week, plus my DSL connection needs to transfer :*(. See you.
-Luis |
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