Ubuntu Kiosk?

[Will H. Backman]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A local school is interested in trying out Linux. I will setup a room 
> with thin clients running from an Edubuntu server. I just have one 
> concern: Last year I did this with another school. I setup a single 
> user account which all the students shared. This worked alright except 
> for OpenOffice. If two students started OpenOffice the second one 
> would see an error saying that OOo was running. I never found a 
> solution for this.
>
> I'd like to setup something Kiosk-style. I don't want to hand out 600 
> user names and passwords. I have no idea how to setup a thin client 
> Kiosk. Any suggestions? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
One thing to play with the the GDM PostSession scripts.  You can tar up 
the home directory of the kiosk user when you have it in a good state, 
and then have the GDM post session script untar the directory archive 
when they log out.  This resets the kiosk users account.

GDM man page says:
When the session has completed, *gdm* attempts to run 
//etc/gdm/PostSession///display/, or //etc/gdm/PostSession///Default/. 
Of all these files, only the //etc/gdm/Sessions/ one is required to exist.