<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martijn Klingens</b> <<a href="mailto:klingens@kde.org">klingens@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:40, Gmail Collector wrote:<br>> I have googled hundreds of pages, all of which refer to "groups" as the<br>> headings (or similar) within the configuration files.<br><br>Quite possible in this context ;)
<br><br>> When I use the kiosk admin tool, I get the impression that I can control<br>> features by different unix groups (listed in /etc/groups).<br><br>That's also true.<br><br>The word "group" has two different meanings in the Kiosk context. One being
<br>the Unix group, and one being the Config Group.<br><br>> This is the behavior that I am searching for, however my attempts at setting<br>> up group restrictions have failed. Is there a "howto" or tutorial regarding
<br>> the setting up of "unix group" restrictions, or am I missing the whole<br>> picture?<br><br>I don't think there's a tutorial covering just this. Most Kiosk tutorials<br>probably *do* cover the group setup as part of a bigger whole though.
<br>At least it's the most natural way to set up bigger systems, so I expect<br>tutorials to cover this subject.<br><br>What exactly is not going as expected? The general procedure is as follows:<br><br>1. Create the appropriate Unix group
<br>2. Make the test user member of the group<br>3. Configure a kiosk profile and assign it to the group<br>4. Make sure there is no profile assigned to the user, since user profiles<br>take precedence over group profiles, disabling the group profile
<br><br>Does that help?<br><br>--<br>Martijn<br>_______________________________________________<br>kde-kiosk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kde-kiosk@kde.org">kde-kiosk@kde.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-kiosk">
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Yes, that does help, I guess I mainly wanted to confirm that I wasn't
wasting my time trying to use unix groups in vain. I believe that
my problem might be using a user profile. However I thought that
by making the group configurations immutable it would over ride the
user profiles in that group. <br>
<br>
All of the pages that I have studied have gone into details regarding
the groups within the configurations and have not mentioned the unix
groups feature. The only clue that I got was from Kiosk Admin,
which I have been experimenting with. So I must be looking at the
wrong documents, or misinterpreting them. Thanks for your help,
I'll continue on my quest to use Kiosk Admin.<br>
<br>
Gary<br>
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