A way to lock down the system to only a certain set of users.

[mrichardson3]

This program seems to have done much of the heavy lifting regarding admin for users and selections of folders. However, I don't want practically any of the copyparty features. I want a system that is totally locked down except for this use case. I'd like to create users that when they log in the system, they are presented with a read only folder (of pictures in this case) that they can download to their local machine. The user will not be allowed to navigate away from the directory that I have chosen for them. The user can see the thumbnails and it should be clear as to the procedure of how to download the files to their system. This is the only feature I would need. It would also be nice if their session information were logged so I can see what is going on with people accessing the system. Because the directory is readonly, I would not want or allow uploading of any kind. Does that seem like something that is feasible? I'm willing to figure out the "how" if somebody that knows more than me about copyparty knows that this is a workable solution.
Thanks,
Mark

[mrichardson3]

Well I wanted to suggest an answer to my own question. I went to claude.ai and asked it the exact question posed above. Claude wrote out a complete config file that looks like it does exactly what I wanted it to do. I have not tried it out yet, but it looks like an excellent jumping off point. I won't bother to clutter up this discussion with the config file Claude generated as you can just ask claude.ai to do the same thing for your particular use case. I'll check back later to let you know how it goes.