Kiosk-Mode User for a School Librery

[Wes James]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am putting together an old computer for a school library.
>
> I've already install Ubuntu 12.04 on it, creating the first user as the
> admin user.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Basically - I want the user to be able to use only what's on the Unity
> Launcher and hide the rest.
>
> Is there a simple way to do it?
>
> I prefer to cut and paste commands to the console...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amichai.
>
>
On google search I typed in:

lock down unity ubuntu

There were several links to explore.

-wes
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