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Our team has a small Mac that we use to display an auto-refreshed web page, but it requires an authenticated user be logged into it.
So the question: how can we show the browser, but have the keyboard and mouse locked from any unauthorized access? Password unlock would be best, but forced log-out might be okay.
As a secondary question: if the current user were on vacation that day, how could another user log into the machine?
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The machine will also be used for other things several per week: video conferencing, watching the occasional YouTube video, etc.
It's important that the keyboard and mouse can be used when the machine is "unlocked", and highly desirable that the unlocking can be done quickly (<30 seconds)
for added security make sure to disable the external USB ports – Xantec – 2010-11-23T16:26:12.397
that wouldn't preclude them from plugging another into the machine. @Xantec if you can elaborate as an answer, I'd appreciate it (and if it works will accept it). – NVRAM – 2010-11-23T16:57:32.583
@NVRAM see edit... – CaseyIT – 2010-11-23T17:58:15.410
Wow. I love this answer! – msanford – 2010-11-23T22:02:47.353
Thanks, but it sounds like this won't help me: I guess I hadn't stressed that we need to use the kbd somewhat frequently. Mucking with system files and rebooting sounds too slow, and too likely to make the machine unusable. – NVRAM – 2010-11-25T00:10:20.707