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[Reinhold Pam Muller <muller.rpm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John - thanks for that
Had a quick look at the websites last night - they look challenging - will look later after work some more . . . . .

I did google the subject and found plenty of websites  / threads that indicate how to set up a limited user acc. with limited priviledges
Did NOT find any website / thread that discussed why it is not working, and how to fix it

As i am doing excatly as all these websites / threads suggest and as it is not working for me I came to the conclusion 
a; either I am doing something wrong (and would love to know what exactly)
b; it must be a bug and no-one is overly worried about it as there are other ways (kiosk - as you suggested) of setting this up.

You should know that I also use pessulus and that seems to be working fine (have most of the desktop locked down) with the exception the "disable save to HD"  function seems not to be working.  Hmmmm more investigative work waiting.
Is sabayon any better then pessulus??

cheers
Papabear / Reinhold



 
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From: John Barstow <jbowtie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Reinhold Pam Muller <1bigteddy@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ubuntu-nz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 29 June, 2010 5:26:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-nz] setting up anohter user

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...)