I've installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a kiosk machine. I used xguest. Works great, except now the customer wants the Firefox homepage to be one pointing to a particular site. Doesn't seem to be much documentation on how to make minor changes to the account. Lots of SELinux guidance, but nothing about default home page, etc.
Dave
On 12/8/2014 6:12 PM, David McGuffey wrote:
I've installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a kiosk machine. I used xguest. Works great, except now the customer wants the Firefox homepage to be one pointing to a particular site. Doesn't seem to be much documentation on how to make minor changes to the account. Lots of SELinux guidance, but nothing about default home page, etc.
in firefox, go to Options, General, and paste in the URL for the home page, OK...
or, look in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini and find the Path= in the default profile, and go to that directory, prefs.js, and look for the line ... add your URL there.
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "<SOMEURLHERE>");
Somewhat offtopic, watch out for xguest; it can create problems. I.e. if you logout from xguest you can't log back in, you need to reboot.
HTH Lucian
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From: "David McGuffey" davidmcguffey@verizion.net To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2014 02:12:23 Subject: [CentOS] How to configure xguest Firefox home page
I've installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a kiosk machine. I used xguest. Works great, except now the customer wants the Firefox homepage to be one pointing to a particular site. Doesn't seem to be much documentation on how to make minor changes to the account. Lots of SELinux guidance, but nothing about default home page, etc.
Dave
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This is actually an old problem with pulseaudio processes no dying properly on exit.
I think if you remove the exclusive flag from
/etc/security/sepermit.conf
This will work in all situations. The exclussive flag is there to make sure two different users can not login at the same time.
On 12/09/2014 03:53 AM, Nux! wrote:
Somewhat offtopic, watch out for xguest; it can create problems. I.e. if you logout from xguest you can't log back in, you need to reboot.
HTH Lucian
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Nux! www.nux.ro
----- Original Message -----
From: "David McGuffey" davidmcguffey@verizion.net To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2014 02:12:23 Subject: [CentOS] How to configure xguest Firefox home page I've installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a kiosk machine. I used xguest. Works great, except now the customer wants the Firefox homepage to be one pointing to a particular site. Doesn't seem to be much documentation on how to make minor changes to the account. Lots of SELinux guidance, but nothing about default home page, etc.
Dave
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