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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:33:20 +0000
From:      Mark Hill <slurpcandy@btinternet.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Restricting Xwindows
Message-ID:  <20011112233320.A16700@turtle.turtle>
In-Reply-To: <20011112231605.A16432@turtle.turtle>
References:  <258bb29fb0.29fb0258bb@drustvo-dns.si> <20011112231605.A16432@turtle.turtle>

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:16:05PM +0000, Mark Hill wrote:
> 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.
------->	I meant BORDERLESS netscape, not windowless. :)
> 
> 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

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