Timeline for Allowing Restricted Functionality on a Logged-Off or Locked Windows Computer
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| Oct 11, 2013 at 14:31 | answer | added | MDT Guy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 11, 2013 at 13:13 | answer | added | CMax | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 16, 2013 at 8:44 | history | edited | Vihung |
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| Aug 15, 2013 at 17:56 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | To add to @Ramhound: I'd suggest something like starting a virtual machine that has no access to the host disks. For small kiosk machine images check thinstation.org (though their focus is more on PXE bootable systems) | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 17:40 | comment | added | Ramhound | I would just offer a Kiosk mode. There exists software that will handle getting rid of files connected to privacy of the customer ( automatically clear their cookies, ect). Your unlikely to find a solution to automatically switch to this user mode of course. You can also handle this without user and provide a locked down guest account with specific functionality. | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 17:17 | comment | added | Vihung | Thanks for the comments. Let's assume that all good practises will be in place to restrict what the browser can do and what the user can do. Obviously the emphasis of my question was not about restricted use from the security point of view, but restricted from the point of view of available options to the user. Please ignore the fact I used the word restriction. Imagine I said Reduced Set of Affordances instead! | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 15:45 | comment | added | allquixotic | Agree with @HagenvonEitzen ! A web browser lets you do much more than you would expect, including accessing files, running programs, executing arbitrary JavaScript (which can use computation resources on the machine to do interesting things, or make web requests to other computers), and so on. You'd need to carefully audit the capabilities of the browser you chose, which is a separate and more complicated problem from the one you're asking about (running a program under a guest account upon logoff/lock screen). | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 15:35 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | I'd say that "just a browser" would not qualify as restricted | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 15:18 | history | asked | Vihung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |