[Kde-kiosk] trouble implementing kiosk on Suse 9.1

[Mr Wiggles]

I found a similar problem to what I am experiencing in the archives, here it is:

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On Thursday 22 July 2004 12:17, Florian Roth wrote:
> Hi
>
> I ran kiosktool as root on our 'masterclient' (the computer the image is
> made from) in school an modified the default profile. I locked down the
> proxy settings, set up some desktop icons etc. Then a wanted to assign the
> profile to a group ('users' in this case) so I added a group policy. Here I
> realized, that every group exported from out server over NIS was in the
> list at least twice. I chose one of the 3 user groups and created the
> policy.
> Ich looked at the /etc/kde* (don't know the exactly name here an my private
> computer) file and saw, that the policy was assigned by name and not by
> gid. So this should be no problem, should it? But when I tried to test the
> settings with several accounts, it didn't work. (Simply nothing was
> changed). So I wondered if I had to activate the kiosk features somewhere.
> Maybe someone can help.

Which version of KDE are you using?

You can use "kiosktool-kdedirs --check" to see which profiles are currently 
active.

You probably need to add
  export KDEDIRS=$(kiosktool-kdedirs)
to startkde or xinitrc. 

Adding it to xinitrc only works if startkde doesn't unset KDEDIRS.

Cheers,
Waldo
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My specific issue:
I am running SuSe9.1 Pro and installed the version of kiosk from the
CD.  In this version there did not appear to be any way to assign the
created profiles to users or groups, and once I created a profile it
was only applying to root for some reason.

I saw that the screenshots on the kiosk site were different than what
I was using so I uninstalled my older version of kiosk and downloaded
the suse rpm of the new one.

Now it looks to make more sense as there is a section to assign the
created profile to users or groups, but for some reason it appears to
be ignoring the aforementioned manage users profile assignment and is
only applying the profiles I create to root.

Does it sound like I just need to add that line to
/opt/kde3/bin/startkde and if so where in startkde should I add it?