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

[Martijn Klingens]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 16:17, Murray Trainer wrote:
> Everything is fine setting up the profile in preview etc.  As I said, my
> locked down Kiosk profile works fine when it is applied to a group of
> existing users.  The problem is the Kiosk profile doesn't apply when
> adding new or existing users to the group.  If I remove the association
> of the kiosk profile to the group and reapply then the new members of
> the group get the locked down profile when they login.  I am using Suse
> 9.1 if that is any help.

With what KDE version is that? My laptop runs a self-compiled KDE, which works 
fine with Kiosk, but the KDE that shipped with 9.1 is slightly too old to use 
with user profiles and instead requires the use of $KDEDIRS to get things up 
and running.

That said, since it works with some users for you I'd assume you already 
upgraded to SuSE's supplementary updates or built your own KDE. While looking 
for the command line that Waldo once mentioned for the 'kiosktool-kdedirs' 
tool I noticed the attached e-mail.

Does that e-mail (and the rest of the thread in the list archives) look 
familiar to you and help you any further? To me it seems like the same 
problem. It's also remarkable that the mail mentions that profiles are being 
added by UID rather than GID, which would also explain the behaviour you 
describe. I quickly considered that option and dropped it since it should be 
technically impossible, but apparently it can actually happen :/

Anyway, is that thread of any help?

-- 
Martijn
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