[Kde-kiosk] newbie

[Romeo Theriault]

Thank you Martijn, The reason that I said it was buggy was because I'll
set up the user account the way that I want, then I'll log out and log
in as root and use the kiosktool to lock down there account. When I log
into the kiosk account which I'd just set up only some of the features
that I set in the kiosktool are working, and some of the way that I set
up there account is not the same. (ex. I set up the panel to be small
with only the konqueror in it, but after I use the kiosktool the panel
is set back to the default system panel and the background is back to
the system default, and the icons on the desktop.)  ??? Does this have
something to do with the cascading config files and some take precedence
over another?  How then, do I configure the kiosk user account the way
that I want then lock it down?  Thank you all very much.

Romeo

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 21:20 +0100, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:25, Romeo Theriault wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm trying to lock down a kde machine for use with a internet
> > kiosk. I've never worked with kde kiosk settings before, and I'm rather
> > new to linux. I have the "README.kiosk" which is very informative, but I
> > don't quite find it very user friendly. I'm not sure where to put this
> > file (what to name it?) that has the config options? I just want it to
> > work for one user account. Would someone be willing to let me know where
> > I need to put it and what to name it to work for one person? And maybe,
> > let me see an example config file so I have something to work with.
> 
> If you want to do it all by hand (which I don't recommend you to do) you 
> should create a /etc/kderc to define the available profiles. The one I used 
> at my talk at Sane 2004 in september looks like this:
> 
> ------------------
> martijn at martijn:/etc> cat kderc
> [Directories]
> kioskAdmin=martijn:
> prefixes=/etc/opt/kde3/
> profileDirsPrefix=/etc/kde-profile/
> userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-user-profile
> 
> [Directories-Sane2004]
> prefixes=/etc/kde-profile/Sane2004/
> 
> [Directories-default]
> ProfileDescription=Default profile
> ProfileInstallUser=root
> prefixes=/var/lib/kde-profiles/default
> ------------------
> 
> This tells KDE that there are two profiles, "Sane2004" and "default". Next you 
> need to map users or groups to profiles. The above example 
> uses /etc/kde-user-profile for that, but as you can see you can define your 
> own file there. Mine looks like this:
> 
> ------------------
> martijn at martijn:/etc> cat /etc/kde-user-profile
> [General]
> groups=
> 
> [Users]
> sane2004=Sane2004
> ------------------
> 
> This maps the user 'sane2004' to the profile 'Sane2004'. The last step is to 
> actually put stuff in the profile. The folder as listed in /etc/kderc 
> (/etc/kde-profile/Sane2004/ in my example) has the same structure as ~/.kde, 
> so there is a 'share/' directory underneath, etc. Just make sure the access 
> rights allow your locked down user to read the files and there you go!
> 
> > p.s  I've tried the kiosktool (gui interface) and found it very buggy.
> > So I'm wanting to try through the config file.
> 
> In my experience it's not always very untuitive, but certainly not buggy. Did 
> you try some development snapshot or an older version?
>