[Techtalk] Configuration Restrictions

[Bud]

Booting from a live CD is a good idea. Recently I discovered that Knoppix had 
a cool service called the Knoppix Terminal Service which you can use to boot 
a remote diskless client over the network. This in contrast to the LTSP 
project (www.ltsp.org) allows applications to be run locally as opposed to 
running them on the server and just getting the output on a local X server.

 I had an old sony vaio notebook (PII 366Mhz) which had the hard disk and the 
controller chip burned. It was able to boot off a USB floppy and so I 
downloaded a boot image for my network card (eepro100) from 
http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ and booted knoppix off that.

 If you are interested in making your own linux live cd I have written a 
how-to and can be found at
http://www.babytux.org/articles/howto/how2livecd.php

Bud


On Monday 01 September 2003 10:41 am, Dennis Wheeler wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 rocketgirl <> wrote:
> > I would like to make a public terminal with Mandrake 9.1 that would only
> > allow the user to use the programs such as openoffice and mozilla...with
> > permission to print.  How do I go about blocking all access to
> > configuration--and I mean all.  I don't want anyone to even be able to
> > move a desktop icon.
> >
> > Thanks Wendy
>
> How about booting from a live system CD, instead of the hard drive? That
> way they can't change anything.
>
> For example, Slackware ships a live bootable CD. I like to use Knoppix.
>
> But you'll probably want to create your own custom one. There should be
> lots of Howto's on the subject, but I can't recall what they're called at
> the moment.
>
> -- Dennis
>
>
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