Locking down Fedora Core 2 desktop
Pavels Nikolajevs
pavels at capital.lv
Sat Jun 19 12:51:40 UTC 2004
Greetings
>1. User friendly;
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check
>2. Browsing the Internet;
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firefox 0.9+flash plugin, disable xpiinstall, remove nullplugin
>3. Sending / receiving mails (from web browser ... so same as first);
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thunderbird?
>4. Multi lingual;
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check all languages at install
>5. Open-Office (it should be allowed for a guest to write a short document
> and to print it);
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check
>6. Copying files from memory cards (e.g. Compact-Flash) to CD (CD burner).
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mkdir /mnt/flash
and add entry to /etc/fstab
>7. Remote locking (or at least loging off) of local loged user desktop.
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hmm.... never tried to do that, but I think it's possible
>3. Is there any easy way or a compressible (easy) doc file how to
> costumize GNOME menses and desktop? I want to leave only few icons in
> the menu / desktop?
> Can I make this settings writable only by root (read only for user) so
> that after logout / login the predefined settings will be loaded?
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painful, but possible. gnome docs contain very little of it, but you
should read gnome sysadmin's guide
>4. Is it posible to prevent a user from running not allowed applications?
> I want to avoid changing 'x' bit of N binaries. I would like to costumize
> a file browser to allow only browsing memory cards and copy the content
> to CDs ... I also want to disallow creating shortcuts on the desktop (so
> that the user will not be able to run e.g. xterm). How can I do this?
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don't allow them run from root. everything else can be achieved setting
correct permissions on Desktop directory
>5. Which 'easy to use' program should I use for burning CDs?
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Default nautilus CD burner
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