Revision as of 08:07, 20 February 2012

The concept is to build a Kiosk that will only allow a user to browse one website. The goal is to get the user to sign up for the newsletter.

Requirements

• Can be fixed by an admin over the internet
• User can only browse one website
• User cannot change the settings or edit other parts of the computer

Hardware

• ASUS Eee Box EB1021-B028E Desktop PC AMD Dual-Core Processor E-450(1.65GHz) 2GB DDR3 320GB HDD Capacity AMD Radeon HD 6320 Window 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

Software

After a quick search it seems that Ubuntu has been used alot for the Kiosk OS. Their are numerous lockdown guides to securing the OS for a Kiosk. It looks like Chrome, Firefox, and Opera can all be used for the browsing.

Process

• Install a LTS version of Ubuntu
• Update System
• Install ubuntu-restricted-extras
• Create kiosk user account via gui
  • Remove all user privileges via gui tool
• Install Firefox
• Install Reset Kiosk 0.4
• Install R-kiosk
  • Disable Plug-in
• Install dansguardian

Meh. Do this instead of all that:

http://jacob.steelsmith.org/content/ubuntu-kiosk-based-10041