[Kde-kiosk] Lock Down by groups

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thu May 20 2004 00:27, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> I currently lock down users belonging to a kiosk group (students in my
> case) by adding a little hack to the startkde script that looks for
> groups user belongs to, and if it finds a group that has a matching
> kiosk directory, sets the kdedir/kdedirs variables to it, ie
> /opt/security/students (with a kdeglobals file inside
> /opt/security/share/applnk/config/kdeglobals).
>
> Now with kde 3.2.2 out, is that still the way I should be doing that, or
> is there now a more official way.

Yes, that's still the recommended way. 

In KDE 3.2.3 I want to do this automatically so that you no longer have to 
muck around with the startkde script. kiosktool 0.4 will come with a small 
tool that does basically the same and that you can use in combination with 
older KDE versions.

kiosktool 0.4 will have a user manager with which you can assign profiles 
based on any of the groups a user belongs to or to specific users.

I hope to release kiosktool 0.4 somewhere next week.

Cheers,
Waldo
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