[Kde-kiosk] Lost

[Casey King]

Okay, after messing with this for awhile.I now see what the problem was
with my kiosk settings spreading to the other profiles.  This is
resolved now.  I almost have the system locked down to what I want for
the user, but it seems like my menu bar continues to shop games and such
even though I had removed them from the kde menu list and saved my
settings.is there something I am missing?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Casey King [mailto:cking at lovebox.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:28 AM
To: Kiosk Mailing List
Subject: [Kde-kiosk] Lost

 

I currently downloaded kiosktools 1.0 and have found there is little
documentation as of right now.  I have been trying to search the
archives for information to help me, but I am not getting what I need.
I am glad the mailing list is active.

 

I am running CentOS 4.1 with KDE 3.3.

 

I created a local user "shop", and then while logged into KDE as root, I
created a profile "shop" within the kiosktools.  Just before creating
the profile, I receive an message about the /etc/skel/.kde

 

There seems to be a conflict with something in
AutoStart/Autorun.desktop.

 

Also,  after going through and disabling what I can with the kiosktools,
I go into profile properties and the information is as follows:

 

Profile name: shop

Files in this profile will be owned by: root

Directory for this profile: /etc/kde-profile/default

 

Under ASSIGN PROFILES

 

I have no group policies, and under individual user policies I have:

User: shop

Profile: default

 

 

I know I have a lot more locking down to do because the "shop" user is
still able to access games and anything under the menu.  I do see where
some of the lock downs are working b/c the user is unable to do anything
with "right clicks."  There are some other locks down that are working.
The biggest problem is, now for every profile that logs into KDE, the
Kiosk settings I want for only the "shop" user are spread across the
board.  Even when I log into KDE as root, I have the same features
locked down.  I have to login under Gnome in order to pull up a terminal
and try to make configuration changes to kiosktool.  I am not sure how
effective this really is because I am not logged in under the KDE
environment.

 

I am not sure what I need to do in order to develop a KDE profile with
restrictions that do not spread to the other profiles on the system.
Also, for some more clarity for myself.  From what I can see, I will not
be able to remotely manage kiosk systems with this program.  Finally,
there is a section where you can upload the 'profile' to a remote
server.  I am guessing this for using the same profile on multiple
computers?

 

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.thanks

 

Casey

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