[EdLUG] Locking down Ubuntu 14.04

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

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Personally I would use disk quotas, and set them to be very low, of
course it would need space for profiles and temporary files for each user.

You can use a script to clean up user areas overnight.


Mark





On 09/30/2015 01:50 AM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am donating two Ubuntu 14.04 machines to a homeless shelter.  The
shelter would like to prevent the residents from writing any documents
to the hard drive.  The shelter wants to have residents download stuff
to flash drives they are giving the residents.  Googling, I find nothing
directly on point.  Any help is welcome.
>
> I did find this
>
> http://forums.linuxvoice.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=147
>
> Which talks about locking down the user settings, but it does not
prevent writing to the hard drive.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Christian Einfeldt
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