Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:16:05 +0000 From: Mark Hill <slurpcandy@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restricting Xwindows Message-ID: <20011112231605.A16432@turtle.turtle> In-Reply-To: <258bb29fb0.29fb0258bb@drustvo-dns.si> References: <258bb29fb0.29fb0258bb@drustvo-dns.si>
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:27:27AM +0100, Martin Zibert wrote: > Greetings! > > First of all i'd like to say: sorry about my english.It's not very good. > I have one problem.We have a cyber caffee in our town and all the > computers run on Windows platform.Now, we want to make a change.We want > to install FreeBSD, but there are some problems. > We'd like to run Xwindows but very restricted kind of Xwindows.let me > explain that: no KDE just default Xwindows, no menus.When user look at > the screen he/she must only see Netscape and nothing else - no telnet or > other services.We also want to acomplish that users cannot save any > files or anything else.I know that can be acomplished with permissions > or security level, but i don't know how to restrict Xwindows. > Does anybody know how to make this thing work? > Oh, and another thing.There are some parameters which shutdown Xwindows > (ctrl+alt+backspace) - we want to change that to! > > Thank for all the help in advance. > > Martin > > Hi, I tried to keep out of this thread, because I only (roughly) know how to do what you want on a linux box. What's the FreeBSD equivalent of ~/.xinitrc? I think it's ~/xinit.rc In your ~/.xinitrc equivalent, change the last line that says exec (your window manger here) to exec netscape when you run startx (or the FreeBSD equivalent - sorry!) You will get a windowless netscape on your screen. I think you can configure netscape to take up the whole of the screen. Use a 'graphical login manager' for the ctrl+alt+backspace problem. Examples of graphical login managers are xdm, gdm and kdm. (IIRC). Using a graphical login manager will prevent user's accessing the console. For extra security, you can restrict the user's account with sudo (or the FreeBSD equivalent - Sorry again!). That way, a console prompt will fairly useless to them. I hope the above isn't too Linux specific and that someone knows what I'm talking about. Hoping to help. -- Mark Hill - http://www.fero.uklinux.net Hoping not to fall in the 'it works like that in Linux' trap Using FreeBSD 4.2 in vmware 3.0, on top of Slackware Linux 8.0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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