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[John Barstow <jbowtie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Reinhold Pam Muller
<muller.rpm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi follks
>
> I must be missing something
> I have plenty of ubuntu boxes set up for my scouts - (with 7.10; 8.04; 9.04
> os)
> I have set them up with a admin - and then created a user (which the scouts
> alone can use for their internet experience - as I have and will not tell
> them the admin (root) log in
>

There's some instructions for setting up a kiosk mode:

http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linuxkiosk/ubuntu01.htm

They were written for Dapper (6.06) but should still be usable for any
version of Ubuntu through to Lucid. In particular, make sure you
disable access to the shell if you want to prevent them from manually
mounting media.

For your specific issue:

"To enable or disable automount open a terminal and type gconf-editor
followed by the [Enter]  key.

Browse to /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount.

The media_automount key controls whether to automatically mount media.
If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically mount media such as
user-visible hard disks and removable media on start-up and media
insertion. "
 Source:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

Again, you need to lockdown this gconf key to prevent it being changed
using the instructions for kiosk mode. (because otherwise they can
just google the page above and use gconf-editor to set it back...)