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

[Martijn Klingens]

On Monday 17 January 2005 14:10, Murray Trainer wrote:
> mtrainer at ldap:~> groups mtrainer
> mtrainer : users Domain Users external
> mtrainer at ldap:~> kiosktool-kdedirs --check
> /home/mtrainer/.kde/:/var/lib/kde-profiles/default/:/etc/opt/kde3/:/opt/kde
>3/
>
> Obviously the problem is the /var/lib/kde-profiles/default value which
> should be /var/lib/kde-profiles/external/.  My question is where and
> when is that value generated?  

As far as I understand the Kiosk framework that should be automatically 
determined. The relevant code in kiosktool-kdedirs is as follows:

---------
    mapCfg.setGroup("Groups");

    for( QStringList::ConstIterator it = groups.begin();
         it != groups.end(); ++it )
    {
        QCString grp = (*it).utf8();
        // Check if user is in this group
        struct group *grp_ent = getgrnam(grp);
        if (!grp_ent) continue;

        char ** members = grp_ent->gr_mem;
        for(char * member; (member = *members); ++members)
        {
            if (user == member)
            {
                // User is in this group --> add profiles
                profiles += mapCfg.readListEntry(*it);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
---------

It would be interesting to see the result of this on your system using 
hardcoded values.

In case you didn't compile KioskTool on your own you could try writing a small 
C app that roughly does this (*WARNING* untested, might not even compile!):

-------
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <grp.h>

int main( void )
{
    struct group *grp_ent = getgrnam( "external" );
    if (!grp_ent)
    {
        printf( "Cannot read group external!\n" );
        return -1;
    }

    char ** members = grp_ent->gr_mem;
    for( char * member; (member = *members); ++members )
    {
        if (user == member)
            printf( "User is in group 'external'\n" );
        else
            printf( "User is *NOT* in group 'external'!\n" );
    }
    return 0;
}
-------

I hope Waldo returns home soon BTW, since this is getting darn close to the 
limits of my own abilities. :(

-- 
Martijn