[Kde-kiosk] how to make KDE kiosk work

Claudio Henrique Fortes Felix chffelix at terra.com.br
Mon Jan 10 03:29:01 CET 2005


Hi,

I´m trying to deploy KDE on a thin client server but I want to be able 
to lock down typical configuration sections so common users can´t change 
some of the system settings. I already read the whole sysadmin 
documentation from kde.org, all those things about the directory 
structure and configuration files, but I got a little confused when I 
reached the Kiosk mode. So, if anyone can help me, here is my question:

Is the KDE kiosk framework just the result of the ability we have to 
edit the configuration files, for example, on /opt/kde/share, using 
immutable attributes, or is it something more than that? By looking at 
how kiosktool works, it appears to use profiles that, according to the 
its docs, are nothing else than KDE configuration directory structures. 
However, I see no KDEDIRS variable exporting them, so it appears there´s 
something more to it than the KDE documentation explains. Can someone 
point me to the right direction here? I´m kinda lost :(

Thanks!




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