Re: Single purpose

[Stephen Samuel <samnospam@bcgreen.com>]

Gustavo Guillermo Pérez wrote:
> El Sábado, 15 de Julio de 2006 15:04, Scott Taylor escribió:
>   
>> Hello admins,
>>
>> I have a client that wants a workstation that can do only one thing:
>> connect a browser to a website and that is all.  Only the one website too.
>>  I'm thinking something with Squid, maybe, or some IPTables entry, on a
>> stand alone workstation (probably CentOS).
>>
>> Does that sound do-able?
>>     
> Yes of course
>   
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
> Reasemble some kind of live distro, not just CentOs, like knoppix or Gentoo 
> Live DVD. Remove default gateway and add the name resolution of your webpage 
> to /etc/hosts, and of course add route just only for this webpage.
>
> I use to do it on my systems, and for me like other people suggest, a DVD4.3GB 
> is enough, no hard drive involved. or PXEBoot if you are on some kind of lan.
>
> :)
>   
in /cdrom/KNOPPIX/knoppix.sh , you can also turn off the shells on the 
consoles
(by replacing /etc/inittab) and change /etc/sudoers so that other stuff 
isn't available.
Since you ONLY want to be able to run the browser, then you may also 
want to run a more
limited desktop (like fvwm), and remove all of the mouse options. 
That'll make it reasonably
difficult to run anything other than the browser.

You might even set it up so that the browser is restarted whenever it dies.

Also note that, if you want a minimal system, you can set the 
workstation to pxeboot
and export the knoppix image from another UNIX workstation (I've had it 
running off
of both a knoppix box and an old FreeBSD box). Most cheap motherboards 
these days
allow you to pxeboot off of the built-in ethernet. That way you have a 
machine with
zero mechanical other than the fans and no way to boot strangely other 
than guessing
the BIOS password.

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