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Re: Good news...
by Dev Null on Tuesday 14/Aug/2001, @15:21

This is nothing like Windows. Windows has zero security - you can tamper with anything on Windows. This should run the KDE session as non root and since shell and file system access is protected can be secure. The fact that you can avoid typing passwords into a kiosk machine which may be physically insecure to get access to services that don't need a password actually improves security over a standard system with a user login. How do you use a standard system login in a kiosk application where none of the users will have accounts? Log in to your own account and leave members of the public to tamper with it? Now that is Windows (NT) style usage (no security is Windows 98 style usage).

Think of this as a really souped up graphical version of your typical boot-up menuing system, where your menuing system is the KDE desktop.

This is going to be really useful for things like POS stations, public information display systems, public appliance machines to do things like scanning, faxing, printing etc. The challenge will be preventing the applications from bypassing security. However it should be possible to adapt any open source application to be secure, and since you are only going to install a few specific applications, this should not be too difficult.

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Re: Good news...
by Ra on Monday 15/Dec/2003, @04:41

I need a graphically attractive window manager, simple to use yet secure on linux boxes to develop for an internet café.

I'm writing a daemon in Perl in the meanwhile to control external hardware that grant timed access to the box.

I guess this is good stuff.

on the trusting matter.. how can you trust users that are trying to get surfing time for free?

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