[OFB Cafe] Kiosk Web Filtering/Restrictions

[Fred Smith]

Tim,

Simple suggestion:   Empty your /etc/resolv.conf, make the file
immutable (chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf) so that dhcpcd doesn't re-write
it, and then hard code the few web addresses you want to visit into
/etc/hosts.

Determined people would still be able to browse the web by typing in
the IP addresses, but I honestly don't think that's a huge problem.

-Fred

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Timothy Butler<tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>        Can anyone recommend a really, really simple way to restrict web
> access in a Ubuntu/GNOME/Firefox kiosk so that it can only be used to access
> authorized sites? The system is meant to be a library catalog lookup
> computer and so I only want it to be able to access the site which hosts the
> catalog.
>
>        I tried using the willowng module in Ubuntu, but it fails on
> attempting to import "dl" on line 23 every time I try to start it.
>
>        Thoughts?
>
>        Thanks,
>                Tim
>
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Fred Smith <fred.smith at gmail.com>