Locking down Ubuntu

[Chris]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:11:15 +0200
"Jeni Pritchard" <jenip6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wish someone would be kind enough to tell me how the hell do you
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> jeni
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> On 16/07/07, Freddie Ruddick <frederific at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:15 -0400, Adric Mitchell wrote:
> > > Would anyone happen know a good way to lock down Ubuntu? I am
> > > trying to achieve basically the same thing that products like
> > > DeepFreeze and Clean Slate do. Thanks!
> >
> > If you make a new user account, of type "Unpriviledged", they can't
> > fsck about with any system settings, outside of their home
> > directory.
> >
> > You can also use pessulus (sudo apt-get install pessulus) to further
> > lock things down. (Not allowing screen lock, stopping them moving
> > panels around, saving to disk, printing, etc)
> >
> > I imagine that it'd be easy enough to write a script that clears any
> > changes made to the user's home directory and settings on reboot.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Freddie
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I think the above ----|   Pretty much covers it, no?!
I'm just sayin'.

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Best regards,
Chris
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