[Kde-kiosk] file://path/to/known/file

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 00:12, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Sadly, it seems that although I've disabled text completion in the Location
> field of Konq, and I've disabled directory browsing in the Open/Save
> dialogs, it looks like one can still get to a file if they know the name:
>
>   file:/home/newsbeat/.bashrc
>
> The folks I'm setting this Kiosk up for want me to get it to them as soon
> as I can, so I was going to go through one more apt-get update/upgrade
> (looks like it's pulling nearly 40MB of new stuff!) and finish up what
> little things I can.
>
> I don't think this will be TOO big of an issue, right off the bat, but
> having a Linux-based kiosk out there (and advertising it is such) will get
> people who know Linux coming and poking at it. :^(
>
> Is there a quick fix for this?  I think I've talked about disbaling file://
> protocol before, so I'll check my archives of this list.  In the meantime,
> I thought I'd ask, in case something new has changed in the last couple of
> months.

There is no fix for this at the moment. It's on my todo though; if you compile 
from source I can provide you with some patches tomorrow or so.

Cheers,
Waldo



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