Limited Capability Web Browsers in Kiosk Configurations.

[useperl]

I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before.

Is anyone lurking presently using Gentoo to provide limited web access to certain sites in say a Kiosk type configuration? My basic idea is an auto-login GDM session using fluxbox (stripped) loading only a web browser to basically hit one site. Namely ours Essentially limiting access to only our site, also utilizing iptables to prevent "IP based" urls. And limiting resolv.conf to only a name server that understands only our domain.

We're a financial institution that provides our customers "Internet Cafes" in our branches that they can use to access their accounts via web interface. I'm interested of course in doing this using a Linux distribution (since I am posting here of course I mean Gentoo ). Found lots of information using Google. However before I start reinventing the wheel perhaps other members of the Gentoo community are already using Gentoo in this way.

Or perhaps you dear reader, are already thinking of *cool* ways to accomplpish this exact task

Anyway. Please feel free to make any comments in any direction on this! Comments to the effect of "you dork, foo project is already doing this!" are welcomed!

--useperl

[shmattie]

Here are a couple of ideas.

1. Through iptables only allow access to a proxy server. I recommend Squid. Within Squid you can do all the filtering of URL's you want.

2. Through iptables only allow outbound traffic to the ips of your companies webservers on 80 + 443.

I am sure there are plenty of other ideas but that is what came to mind.