[Kde-kiosk] Can Non-KDE apps run under context of KDE-Kiosk?

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sun Nov 9 17:44:33 CET 2003


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On Sat November 01 2003 05:25, S. W. B. wrote:
> Hi!  I've been casually investigating running KDE on some public web
> browsing kiosks.  A major problem I've noted is that the user can browse
> the local filesystem by typing file:/// into the URL field of a web
> browser.  Just to be safe, I would configure KDE-Kiosk so the entire file
> system is basically invisible to the user, thereby securing Konqueror. 
> But, is there a way to force non-KDE applications (i.e. Mozilla or
> OpenOffice), to obey the same filesystem access rules defined by KDE?  How
> about in KDE 3.2?  Thanks for the help!

This is unfortunately not possible.

Cheers,
Waldo
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