[Kde-kiosk] user can't browse filesystem

[Martijn Klingens]

Hi Tiago,

On Saturday 17 September 2005 00:29, Tiago Meireles wrote:
> [...] I want to deny users browsing the filesystems but
> I'd like them be able to access and write at floppies

Do you mean raw writing (formatting or the use of disk imaging tools) or just 
file access? In the latter case, how is the floppy mounted? Automount through 
subfs or similar tools? Mount on boot? User mount?

> and record cdr/cdrw as well as pen drives (/dev/sci).

So you need raw device access here? You'll need to make sure that those 
devices are accessible using the low-level unix tools then, that's beyond 
Kiosk's scope. In the old-style it means chowning the device nodes to some 
group with write access and making the users part of this group (e.g. 
'disk'). You might also be able to do it using the newer ACL stuff, but I 
have never had the time to look into that yet (hints from those who already 
did welcome! :) )

Either way, it's beyond Kiosk's scope, all you can use Kiosk for is making 
sure the mount points themselves are unrestricted.

-- 
Martijn