[Kde-kiosk] newbie

[Romeo Theriault]

I am using kiosktool version 0.7-1.1. If this makes any difference.
romeo


On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 10:58 -0500, Romeo Theriault wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> 
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