Exams problemForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Exams problem started by: iPeliva Posted by iPeliva on April 19 2007,09:47
I and the system maintainer on school are busy with a system for exams at school. Because we wanted to use a small and fast-to-deploy system we have choosen damn small linux.However we want a clean system, so the students dont cheat. And the basic application we need is Abiword. THe question is: How to get all the applications out of DSL, that only abiword works. -iP Posted by curaga on April 19 2007,15:24
...Just (as root) chown every binary and then remove exec rights from others than root (except for Abiword, fluxbox, X and bash of course)... Also add a password for root, and change /etc/sudoers so that user dsl is not allowed to become root.Here's how to do that on firefox (first become root and change to the dir where firefox is)
After these changes use the remaster script to create your version of DSL and distribute that.. Or, if you have a hd-install, just make a tarball and copy that to all the comps... All this will take less time than removing apps, and will get the wanted result... Posted by mikshaw on April 19 2007,17:38
Removing exec rights for all but root is probably not a good idea. The Linux system is comprised of many executable files besides bash which are needed to do the most fundamental tasks.If you just need one application, I would look into building DSL or some other small distro as a kiosk. There are at least one or two distros that are made specifically for this purpose. |