[RndTbl] Public access machine

[Mike Pfaiffer]

Montana Quiring wrote:
> FYI: there's this distro too: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05761

	Yeah. That's the one I was thinking of earlier. Like I said it's pretty 
good. It runs off of a live CD. We may try it on the other machine (M$) 
on Friday and see what sort of reception we get. If it does what we 
want, we can yank out the hard drives and maybe add more RAM.

	Now I'm back I can try the other one.


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				Later
				Mike



> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com 
> <mailto:high.res.mike at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Robert Keizer wrote:
>      > Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>      >>     First I've confirmed the reboot/halt command needs to be
>     performed
>      >> as root under Mint. Makes sense.
>      >>
>      >>     When it comes to enabling access to the reboot/halt command,
>     this
>      >> would be done through file permissions?
>      >>
>      >
>      >
>      > It could.. but its a bad idea. A better solution would be to
>     allow the
>      > user access to it via sudo. Try out 'visudo' and the man page of
>     'sudoers'.
>      >
>      > When sudo is setup correctly, certain users can execute commands as
>      > root, so no changes to filesystem permissions are required. Just
>     prefix
>      > the command with sudo .. ie "sudo shutdown -rn now" or "sudo reboot".
> 
>            Actually I'd like it to be done at the system init level.
>     Hope I'm
>     using the correct terminology. Through something which is set up at
>     startup. This way it is out of control of the user. Last week we had
>     someone who was on the single machine all day and wouldn't budge. If he
>     could figure out how to disable the shutdown idea we're discussing he
>     would. This way if the machine shuts down and there is someone waiting
>     to get on they can say he had his half hour and boot him off. If he's
>     the only person there then he can restart since all he does is facebook
>     and the like.
> 
>            What we can do is create a user account without privileges or
>     sudo
>     access so they can't mess up the machine. We can then use a different
>     account for updates etc..
> 
>            BTW, I've just set up Virtual Box and downloaded a couple of
>     kiosk
>     distros. I think the first was Webkiosk. It seemed to work OK. They want
>     $200US to configure it for us. Maybe we can try it in the other machine
>     for a while on Friday and see if we can get by without any changes. The
>     other one is Pynx|Kiosk. I'll look at that one after I get back in a
>     couple of hours. Any suggestions for others to look at? I'll be at
>     tomorrows meeting and ask again there.
> 
>      > All the best,
>      > Robert
> 
>                                    Later
>                                    Mike
> 
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