Locking down Ubuntu

[Jeni Pritchard]

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jeni


On 16/07/07, Freddie Ruddick <frederific at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> 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!
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> If you make a new user account, of type "Unpriviledged", they can't fsck
> about with any system settings, outside of their home directory.
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> HTH
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> Freddie
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