[Kde-kiosk] Lock screen & disabling non-KDE logins (was re: Lock screen)

[Peter]

Hello,

Martijn Klingens writes:
 > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 00:29, Bill Kendrick wrote:
 > > BTW - Off-topic, but can anyone suggest a good HOWTO or README on
 > > disabling tty and remote access for a particular user?
 > >
 > > (e.g., I _only_ want this particular user to be able to log in via KDE.
 > > I suppose in the tty console, I could have the account set up to
 > > automagically logout immediately after logging in - an old Unix account
 > > trick people played on each other back in college :^) )
 > 
 > This is something more people probably would like - leaving the console for 
 > the admins and prohibiting it from the users.
 > 

well, eh, have a look at /etc/security/access.conf which is used by
the libpam-modules.  I think that's what you want.

 > My best bet is a custom PAM module that refuses console or remote
logins from 
 > certain accounts, although a more 'KDE-ish' solution would be favourable. 
 > Unfortunately KDM login doesn't seem to work either when the shell is set to 
 > /usr/bin/false or something similar. If I have time later today I'll try to 
 > play around a bit with this since I could use it for a small kiosk project at 
 > work too, but that one has a touch screen and no keyboard, so it's not 
 > exactly top prio to disable ctrl-alt-fX ;-)
 > 

Peter

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