[Kde-kiosk] Limiting actions and other restrictions by using unix groups

[Gmail Collector]

On 2/13/06, Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday 13 February 2006 10:19, Gmail Collector wrote:
> > Yes, that does help, I guess I mainly wanted to confirm that I wasn't
> > wasting my time trying to use unix groups in vain.  I believe that my
> > problem might be using a user profile.  However I thought that by making
> > the group configurations immutable it would over ride the user profiles
> in
> > that group.
>
> Yes, one would expect that. It bit me in the proverbial behind too when I
> found that out ;)
>
> > All of the pages that I have studied have gone into details regarding
> the
> > groups within the configurations and have not mentioned the unix groups
> > feature.  The only clue that I got was from Kiosk Admin, which I have
> been
> > experimenting with.  So I must be looking at the wrong documents, or
> > misinterpreting them.
>
> Actually, the documentation is simply incomplete. The existing docs indeed
> talk mostly (if not exclusively) about how the Kiosk system works at the
> KConfig level, but there is very little documentation on how the actual
> assignment of profiles works and how the system determines which profile
> to
> apply.
>
> (Note to anyone who is proficient at writing technical documentation: this
> might be a nice junior job to get involved with KDE. Contributions are
> more
> than welcome :) )
>
> --
> Martijn
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Excellent!  I'm away from the server for a couple of weeks  now, but when I
return I  can attack with a whole new perspective.  Thanks much!!

Gary
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