Balenos

🇫🇷 Guide en francais 🥖

This repo holds assets, scripts and documentation of a Lubuntu customization meant to be used by french administration or associations that want to offer their users a self attending station for administrative procedures.

Use cases

For the users

• be able to use a web browser
  • that respects privacy
  • that has a smooth UX thanks to good performance
• has a button somewhere to delete all traces of the user's visit.

For the admins

• to be able to use an aging PC
• be able to configure the station to best suit the context of use while preventing end-users from modifying the settings like:
  • bookmarks
  • home page, default search tool...
• be able to set white or black lists of websites
• easily do some further customization : install apps, change UI...

How does it work?

• the install script creates a linux user that will be auto logged in.
• the taskbar and desktop is simplified
• a private Firefox is launched at startup
• on the admin account, Balenos admin tool is installed

How to use

Install

• Install lubuntu https://lubuntu.me/downloads/

  • french locale
  • no encryption
  • create admin user with a secured password

• login to admin

• copy the content of this repo in admin home directory

• start a terminal and cd balenos

• run chmod +x install-balenos.sh && ./install-balenos.sh

Configure Firefox

• You can configure the homepage and search engine thanks to Balenos admin app
• To customize further use the file /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

Configure bookmarks

• log in as admin
• start Firefox
• create and organize bookmarks as you want them to appear to users
• close Firefox
• launch the administration application Balenos admin app and click on transférer les marque-pages button

Configure Parental control

The install script installs a parental control système : https://gitlab.com/ctparentalgroup/CTparental/. It's possible to fine tune the blacklist from there : https://admin.ct.local/

How to contribute ❤️

• A star would cheer me up ⭐
• If this repo can be of any use to you, I would really value your insights and specific requirements, maybe by email : contact at ad2ien.dev
• Any complain or dev request can be discussed in the issues