Kiosk Mode

[luis_lopez]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup LXDE for a classroom and I would like to know where I can find documentation on how to restrict user actions (i.e right click on the panel). Any tips?

Thanks,

Luis Lopez

[maces]

Hi,

there is already a question to kiosk mode in the forum, just have a look.

I would suggest to change the rights of the config files. Changes would only be temporally. If you want to disable specific commands in the menu's you have to change the code, afaik.

maces

[Marty Jack]

Well first off I am assuming that your students have their own accounts. If that is true no approach is going to enhance security in any way because any user can change the protection of any file they own or create a file under ~/.local or ~/.config to do whatever they like, limited in scope of course to when they are logged in, and like normal Unix security they will not be able to affect other users.

This is not quite the same as kiosk mode where you have users who don't know the password to an account walking up and using your system.

The advantage is, it is open source, so go and edit out whatever parts you don't want accessible.