Locking down Ubuntu

[Mike McMullin]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:11 +0200, Jeni Pritchard wrote:
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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
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>         Freddie
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