[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

[Erik Lewis]

Doesn't take much
Add in the RKiosk plugin to Firefox
Ubuntu with the Kiosk Admin Tool, i believe you need KDE by default
Auto login enabled for your opac user
Symlink the firefox executable to the users autostart directory

thats about it if I remember correctly, took like an hour one morning  
a year ago then cloned it to 5 others with clonezilla

Not much to it at all

On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Bill Erickson wrote:

>
> Though I've never tried it myself, Firefox has a Kiosk Mode extension.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1659
>
> -b
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Rick Cromi  
> <rcromi at starklibrary.org> wrote:
> We used OPAC-only machines in the past.
>
> In the GPO for those, we ran Internet Explorer as a shell in kiosk  
> mode.  There are a couple of methods you could use (including Group  
> Policy) to allow/deny any other web sites and lock IE down.
>
> If GPOs aren’t applying, however, I think you have some other issues  
> to address first.
>
> Richard A. Cromi
> System Analyst
> Stark County District Library
> 715 Market Ave. N.
> Canton, OH. 44702
> Phone: 330-458-3142
> Email: rcromi at starklibrary.org
>
>
> From: J. Benjamin Dudley [mailto:dudleyb_mailing at ecgrl.org]
>
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:04 AM
> To: 'Evergreen Development Discussion List'
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers
>
>
> Around our libraries, we have multiple catalog computers designated  
> for patrons to search the catalog.
>
>
> We have GPOs in place for them so that patrons cannot use them as  
> their own personal surfing computers, but the GPOs don’t always take  
> effect OR some of our computers are too slow to handle it!
>
>
> One thing I have thought about is putting a stripped down Linux  
> distribution on them.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
> J. Benjamin Dudley
>
>
> Systems Administrator
>
> East Central Georgia Regional Library
>
> 902 Greene Street
>
> Augusta, GA 30901
>
> Phone: (706) 821-2637
>
> Cell: (706) 627-5586
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> http://www.ecgrl.org/
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