[Kde-kiosk] [Bug 113969] New: kolourpaint can change wallpaper with locked down desktop

[Chris Fanning]

Hi,

> founded on the cooperation of the locked-down applications. Hence why use
> of non-KDE applications in a Kiosk environment is discouraged.
> (How do you tell Firefox not to go to certain sites, or OpenOffice.org to
> respect certain restrictions?)

I understand that non-KDE apps break the kiosk. Perhpas I could user
konqueror instead of Firefox, buy I can't ask the users not to use
ooffice. We had quite an effort getting them off msoffice, I would not
survive if the were told to change suite again.

Anyone know any firefox/oofice kiosk tricks?

Chris.

On 10/6/05, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> Clarence Dang wrote:
> >I think this might be a kdesktop issue rather than KolourPaint.
>
> The fact that restarting kdesktop resets to the original wallpaper proves
> that the config was not changed. However, there are bugs in both apps:
>
> kdesktop should not change the wallpaper. I don't know how KolourPaint
> told kdesktop to do it (probably via DCOP), but kdesktop should verify
> whether the change was allowed.
>
> KolourPaint should not offer to change it if it can find out that such a
> change is locked down.
>
> >If the security policy was only enforced in KolourPaint, someone could
> > easily recompile KolourPaint with the security policy taken out.
>
> There's no Kiosk security if you can run arbitrary applications, including
> the compiler or modified versions of the allowed applications. Kiosk is
> founded on the cooperation of the locked-down applications. Hence why use
> of non-KDE applications in a Kiosk environment is discouraged.
>
> (How do you tell Firefox not to go to certain sites, or OpenOffice.org to
> respect certain restrictions?)
>
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