[Kde-kiosk] Problem with Applying Group Profiles to new Users

[Martijn Klingens]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 15:56, Murray Trainer wrote:
> My users and groups are in an ldap directory.  I created a locked down
> profile and applied it to a group.  That works fine with users already
> in the group but when I add an existing user to that group or create a
> new user with membership of the group they don't get a locked down
> profile.  I have to re-apply the profile to the group before it takes
> effect on my new members of the group.  I would expect any new member of
> the group should get the profile applied automatically.  Not sure if
> this is a problem with ldap groups only or local posix groups as well.
> Is this a known issue?

It's not clear from your mail, but I think your new users do get the lockdown 
restrictions properly applied and only your preconfigured settings are lost, 
right?

This is because many settings end up in the user's $KDEHOME (~/.kde by 
default) after you have run an application. Currently an application's 
configuration setting is written out to disk if it differs from the 
compiled-in application default IIRC. In practice this means that almost all 
settings in profiles that are not locked down are quickly overridden by local 
user profiles.

Although I'd like it if KDE would not save changes that are no different from 
the 'base' configuration rather than the compilation defaults, and/or if KDE 
would apply changes made in the profile upon next logon, neither of those is 
possible at the moment. In fact, such a feature is quite a technological 
challenge, so I doubt if even KDE 4 will see it.

-- 
Martijn