[Kde-kiosk] Users and Groups in Kiosk

Bill Cavalieri kde-kiosk@mail.kde.org
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:16:58 -0600


Martijn Klingens wrote:

>On Monday 31 March 2003 12:02, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
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>>Can Groups be used instead of Users in restrictions?
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>>I would like to lockdown all the users who belong to a students group, 
>>but leave everyone's else desktop alone.
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>If you have a group students you can create a directory students in, say, 
>/usr/local/kiosk/students and put the locked down files underneath as if they 
>were in a user's home dir (e.g. 
>/usr/local/kiosk/students/share/config/konquerorrc for the Konqueror 
>settings).
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>Next, make sure the users for the students group have $KDEDIRS set to list the 
>group too, or specify the dir in /etc/kderc.
>
>KDE's Kiosk framework should do the rest for you! :)
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Thanks alot, I'll give that a whirl today.

-Bill