Public computer control
 

We are installing linux on public library network

I have two easy questions:


1) how can I control time of a session, i.e. to have logout automatically after
a certain time from login??
2) how can I make all personal data flushed at
logout??

Any applications available??

Any experience in library installation
of Fedora???

Tnx

Antonio
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:59:10 +0200,
"antonio.montagnani@alice.it" <antonio.montagnani@alice.it> wrote:
> We are installing linux on public library network
>
> I have two easy questions:
>
>
> 1) how can I control time of a session, i.e. to have logout automatically after
> a certain time from login??
> 2) how can I make all personal data flushed at
> logout??

You might want to look at xguest for the second part.
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2011/10/28 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:59:10 +0200,
> *"antonio.montagnani@alice.it" <antonio.montagnani@alice.it> wrote:
>> We are installing linux on public library network
>>
>> I have two easy questions:
>>
>>
>> 1) how can I control time of a session, i.e. to have logout automatically after
>> a certain time from login??
>> 2) how can I make all personal data flushed at
>> logout??
>
> You might want to look at xguest for the second part.
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yes, I know xguest, but I understand that guest can work only with
firefox: is it correct???

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 16:19:22 +0200,
Antonio M <antonio.montagnani@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yes, I know xguest, but I understand that guest can work only with
> firefox: is it correct???

Are you asking about the limits on network use? If so, you should be able
to label other programs (or customize the policy) so that they have network
access.
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Bruno Wolff III ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on
28/10/2011 17:21:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 16:19:22 +0200,
> Antonio M<antonio.montagnani@gmail.com> wrote:
>> yes, I know xguest, but I understand that guest can work only with
>> firefox: is it correct???
> Are you asking about the limits on network use? If so, you should be able
> to label other programs (or customize the policy) so that they have network
> access.

Not sure...I would to set up a box where a user (no password required)
might surf the net with Firefox but also write a document with
Libreoffice and a few other applications: and at the end of his session
any data would be deleted and a different user might use same box.
That'all ;-)

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De: "antonio.montagnani@alice.it" <antonio.montagnani@alice.it>
Para: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Enviado: Viernes, 28 de octubre, 2011 5:59:10
Asunto: Public computer control

We are installing linux on public library network

I have two easy questions:


1) how can I control time of a session, i.e. to have logout automatically after
a certain time from login??
2) how can I make all personal data flushed at
logout??

Any applications available??

Any experience in library installation
of Fedora???

Tnx

Antonio
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Brute force method:
save a copy of /home/guest in /somethingorother/guest
on login, have .bash_profile set a timestamp in /home/guest/.logintime
make a cronjob that checks the .logintime timestamp every 5 minutes.
when the time expires, kill the session, delete /home/guest, copy /somethingorother/guest to /home
*
shouldn't be that hard to do and meets all your requirements. It's kind of rude killing a like that session if someone is still working though...
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 19:19:08 +0200,
antonio <antonio.montagnani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on
> 28/10/2011 17:21:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 16:19:22 +0200,
> > Antonio M<antonio.montagnani@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> yes, I know xguest, but I understand that guest can work only with
> >> firefox: is it correct???
> > Are you asking about the limits on network use? If so, you should be able
> > to label other programs (or customize the policy) so that they have network
> > access.
>
> Not sure...I would to set up a box where a user (no password required)
> might surf the net with Firefox but also write a document with
> Libreoffice and a few other applications: and at the end of his session
> any data would be deleted and a different user might use same box.
> That'all ;-)

That sounds like something xguest would facilitate. Why don't you try it
out to see if it meets your requirements.

If people are running libreoffice, are you expecting them to save their work
someplace? If so where?
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