Is there a knoppix Web Kiosk?

[brad]

Disabling Ctrl-Alt-Fn. Would be a very good idea.

I built a kiosk station from Suse Linux. Here are a few steps I took:
Disable Ctrl-Alt-FN. (I left one open, just in case)
Set Grub boot menu to load in 0 seconds.
I disabled Ctrl-Alt-Del. You could disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I left
mine on just in case the GUI got locked. But since these distro's boot off
the CD then you don't really care about the FileSystem so disabling
Ctrl-Alt-BkSp would be ok. Then they would just need to reboot the
kiosk. I also locked down firefox as tight as I can. No right clicks,
no printing, they can't change anything except the address in the address
bar. Even then we don't let them browse off campus.
I set this up about 6 months ago and I was searching high/low for a bootable,
cd kiosk. Since I didn't find one I decided to build my own. The down side is that
I lost one of the partitions once when the power went out. If it was a cd I wouldn't have had that problem. But, (one more thing i'm doing) I tarred up the
home directory when I was finished. so on each reboot I delete the homedir and
recreate it. This just keeps things clean.
BB

[davea0511]

This is probably a morphix question... but what is the default resolution set at, and can it be changed? On my laptop the whole thing appears in a small window in the middle of my screen, I'm guessing it's a 800x600 window.

Thanks,
Dave

ps - LCD screens don't do non-default resolutions very well.

[mataz]

mataz: would disabling Ctrl+Alt+Fn solve all your security concerns?

Disabling Ctrl+Alt+Fn helps to prevent unwanted program execution.
Still, not giving root rights
is the only way to make things safe. In such case no script or program will alter the system. You may say that's not true; OK, I have seen c programs that will get root access on 2.24 kernel but anyway there are kernel updates for such security lags.
If the users rights are limited to usage (and nothing else), and kernel updates and a firewall are present, YOU MADE THE KIOSK VERY SAFE. :P
The UNIX multiuser systems were made to prevent users to mess up with administrators configurations in universitys and reserch-labs. Today IT-experts seam to forget how simple it is to stop junk from getting in the system.
That's it. I am happy to help you if I can.
P.s.wanna know why winXP home is as unsafe as win9x/me?: they can't make a user without the installing, disinstalling and reconfiguring rights, they browse, they click, they INSTALL ).

[davea0511]

I would like to add the Linux driver for a touchscreen (this one: http://www.enablemart.com/productdet...id=329&dept=21) to gandalfar's app. I've used linux for years, but am very new to programming in it (other than shell scripts).

Can someone tell me how would I go about adding a touchscreen driver like this? Thanks in advance!

-Dave

[Ghandalfar]

where can one get the driver?

[rbarnich]

where can one get the driver?

XFree86 has a driver for the "ELO" touch screen serial controller built in.
If the touch screen has another controller card or chip, usually the company website will have them. I've used ELO and Hampshire(TSHARC) controllers under linux. Be advised that calibration programs are written for Windows, but the resulting file can be used with the Linux drivers.
Hope this helps,
rbarnich

[davea0511]

I'm certian the Elo drivers won't work. I like the add-on touchscreen better because an add-on touchscreen solution is much cheaper, and it's much easier (and cheaper) to replace in the event of vandalism. (you can also put a heavy duty piece of acrylic between it an the screen for added protection).

Here's the drivers for the add-on touchscreen: http://www.magictouch.com/support_proe_x.html

-Dave

[pinoylinux]

of all the firefox kiosk iso.
which of the iso releases can can support 100% full screen without address bar, buttons, google searchbar.
it will display only the contents of the default page.

this is perfect for kiosk that will allow only specific website.
anyone?

[oitsubob]

That's exactly what I'm looking for too. Ghandalfar's Firefox livecd will work, but we'd need to go in and edit the firefox xml files and comment out those features. Not being all that proficient in Linux and busy on other projects, I haven't taken the time to dive in and see if I can figure it out. I'm off until the beginning of the year and hope to have some time next week to play. I've also been looking at doing something similar with Windows XP Embedded or BartPE since windows is a lot more familiar, but getting it to work under Linux would seem like more of an accomplishment. If I get something to work, I'll be sure to share, but if someone else beats me to it, I wouldn't mind either I'd still need a way to customize the boot splash screens, desktop wallpaper and homepage. Ghandalfar was working on something like this a while back, a highly configurable kiosk, but he's a busy guy and is involved with more important things.

Bob

[Ghandalfar]

pinoylinux: what's wrong with stallion?

oitsubob: there are heavy plans to release new version before new year, or hopefuly in the first half of january..