Kiosk-Mode User for a School Librery

[Amichai Rotman]

On Nov 18, 2013 5:05 PM, "Wes James" <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
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>> Hi,
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>> I am putting together an old computer for a school library.
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>> I've already install Ubuntu 12.04 on it, creating the first user as the
admin user.
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>> I'd like to create an additional user and lock it down to sort of a
Kiosk Mode. I only want that specific to be affected.
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>> I want to white list specific apps on the Dash menu, and hide the rest.
>> I want to remove entries from the Cog menu to prevent the said user from
entering the system settings (actually, I want to hide the entire Cog menu
from him).
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>> Basically - I want the user to be able to use only what's on the Unity
Launcher and hide the rest.
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>> Is there a simple way to do it?
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>> I prefer to cut and paste commands to the console...
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>> Thanks!
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>> Amichai.
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> On google search I typed in:
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> lock down unity ubuntu
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> There were several links to explore.
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> -wes
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Thanks. I guess you have to know what to look for...

Amichai
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