Is there anybody who can give me some guide on the following:
I need to demonstrate a website in a public place (hotel) using my laptop (with apache on it etc.), and would like to be able to lockdown a web browser (like Firefox) on the foreground so nobody is going to my system while I am looking the other way for a second!

Is there anybody who knows a quick fix to lock down to for example Firefox so it is relatively safe to leave the laptop unattended for some time?

Thanks,

Luuk

Most distros/DE have a way to lock the screen and only unlock with a password (KDE and Gnome do in FC), would that not be good enough?.

i guess you could change the permission on the firefox binary or rename it or whatever you wanted to do, being very careful of course. Although if you are demoing a website i guess that isn't practical.

Logout when you leave the machine alone....

Or are you leaving people to demo on your machine and leaving the room? (crazy) if you are hosting the website locally on your machine you won't need a net connection?

A few questions to be answered before you find the best way

Yes, I am looking in having the laptop showing the website (with a TFT and mousek/keyboard so it won't disappear) and people be able to navigate though it.
There will be an eye one it all the time, but I just don't want to watch it like hawk, or have to go to it all the time telling people not to do anything else than looking at the website as that is kind off disturbing.

I don't need a connection as everything is on the machine, eliminating the problem of having to lock down other internet sites. It is only a once off demonstration, so I am just looking for a easy fix (could use modified Knoppix distro or so if it was a returning occurance).

Ideally I would lock the PC with the internet browser open or so, so they need a password if for some reason they try to leave the browser.

Oh i see, i thought you meant other sites, you mean don't have them poking around the system?

What about running something like fluxbox as a user called demo or something, removing all menu entries (edit ~./fluxbox/menu), hiding the taskbar and adding firefox to it's startup (edit ~/.fluxbox/startup) ?? so when fluxbox starts you get a blank screen with firefox, although if they close it.... or log out with ctrl-alt-del..

I think you need something more than my crude 'fixes'

Also if you are demoing a site shouldn't you show them what it looks like in IE/Konqueror/Safari?

I'd like to know that anyone can view it, not just 1 browser.

Perhaps you should try out these two extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...umpg=10&id=616

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...mpg=10&id=1659

Hope this helps.