Greetings from San Diego :)

[gadgetmang]

Hello one & all... & all in one.....


I donate my time and provide IT services to a local Salvation Army, Ultimately I want to convert all of the computers being use by clients (donated windows systems) to Linux but for now, will buy two refurb desktop systems to start things out. The main reason I wish to switch to Linux is due to the fact I spend way too much time cleaning them from malware, viruses etc... So with that being said, I want computers with Mint installed and no user access to cd-rom, access to usb ports but only to certain files like txt, doc pdf (is that possible under Linux?)


I played around with other distro's in the past but Mint has really impressed me.

[xenopeek]

Hi gadgetmang, welcome to the Linux Mint forums Thanks for joining the forums! Locking down Linux is possible, it starts with creating a unprivileged user account so that the user can not change any system settings. It will take some effort to lock down default behaviour, but preventing access to storage devices other than the default is entirely possibly.

Be sure also to check out the Community website (ideas, tutorials, and hardware and software reviews), and the Cinnamon Spices website for adding themes, applets and extensions to Cinnamon (and check out the Cinnamon Extras package, which will install a lot of these for your automatically). If you haven't installed Cinnamon, see here the most recent update for a teaser.

You can also chat in real-time with other Linux Mint users. In the Mint Menu, in the Internet section, start the application XChat IRC. You will automatically get connected to #linuxmint-chat for general chat and #linuxmint-help for support with other Linux Mint users.

[Habitual]

Hello from Ocean Beach, North Park, Santee, Escondido, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Claremont, Golden Hills, Chula Vista and let's not forget Encinitas.

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the Mint family forums

wizard

[gadgetmang]

Hi gadgetmang, welcome to the Linux Mint forums Thanks for joining the forums! Locking down Linux is possible, it starts with creating a unprivileged user account so that the user can not change any system settings. It will take some effort to lock down default behaviour, but preventing access to storage devices other than the default is entirely possibly.

Be sure also to check out the Community website (ideas, tutorials, and hardware and software reviews), and the Cinnamon Spices website for adding themes, applets and extensions to Cinnamon (and check out the Cinnamon Extras package, which will install a lot of these for your automatically). If you haven't installed Cinnamon, see here the most recent update for a teaser.

You can also chat in real-time with other Linux Mint users. In the Mint Menu, in the Internet section, start the application XChat IRC. You will automatically get connected to #linuxmint-chat for general chat and #linuxmint-help for support with other Linux Mint users.

Thank you so much for this and to the others who commented.

[animaguy]

Gadgetmang,

Welcome!