[Kde-kiosk] Disable key combinations

[Brian Stack]

You still need to lock the system down to prevent any access to the 
functionality for a regular
user. there are a number of ways to do that. such as:

1) special restricted account that the user logs into
2) removing kicker and have the application start up in full screen
3) etc..

just lock down the interface so the user can't fall back into a terminal 
window or
get access to KDE config applications and you should be fine.

Regards,
Brian


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----Original Message Follows----
From: Christian Mueller <cmueller at gmx.de>
Reply-To: kde-kiosk at kde.org, cmueller at gmx.de
To: kde-kiosk at kde.org
Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] Disable key combinations
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:32:16 +0200

Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 21:11 schrieb Brian Stack:
 > I would suggest looking to using xmodmap which configures the keyboard 
and
 > mouse on
 > start-up. do a "man" on xmodmap, you can simply add a shell script in the
 > users start up
 > folder (protect it of course). It is a simple, clean, powerful way to
 > disable or remap everything.
 > for example in the shell script having
 >
 > #! /bin/sh
 >
 > ! Remaps F1 Key to NOTHING
 > xmodmap -e "keycode 67= 0x0000"
 >
 >
 > - you can do this for all keys. look in to xmodmap and all of its
 > functionality!!

But that doesn't keep the user from re-mapping the keycode to the
original setting, does it?  In that case it wouldn't be secure.

Christian.

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