Other Kiosk-Related Configuration Tasks; Preventing Automounting Of Drives - Red Hat DESKTOP Deployment Manual

22 Chapter 4. Locking Down the Desktop: Disabling GNOME Desktop Features
Figure 4-10. Removing All Desktop Icons
Note
Unsetting this key also removes the desktop background menu, thereby eliminating access to the
Open Terminal menu item. This is a recommended step for disabling command line access as
described in Section 4.4 Disabling Command Line Access.
4.7. Other Kiosk-related Configuration Tasks
This section documents a number of configuration tasks an administrator might find useful in setting
up a machine to serve as a public kiosk.
Tip
Removing the top panel or its Main Menu is recommended for kiosk operation. To remove the top
Panel, right-click on it with the mouse and choose "Delete This Panel..." from the Panel menu.

4.7.1. Preventing Automounting of Drives

To prevent all drives, such as floppy disks, cdroms, or other removable media from automatically
mounting, unset the
/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_drives
/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_media
keys as shown in Figure 4-11.