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

[Gmail Collector]

Greetings,

I have reviewed the past postings again, and have discovered what may be a
big part of my problem.  I am running Debian Sarge 2.6.12-1-686-smp with KDE
3.4.  I see  that xdg could be a contributing factor.

I see that many posts refer to a patch regarding this problem, however with
Debian I'm not sure whether it has been patched or not.  Any pointers on how
to determine this?

I tried the fix listed by Jasper van der Marel to remove the
kde-applications.menu file, which just decimated the start menu.  This leads
me to believe that my current KDE configuration is not correct, as it
appears not to read the profiles at all.  Any pointers on fixing the
configuration if it is incorrect?

# echo $KDEDIRS, I get no return, is that correct?

# kde-config --path xdgconf-menu
/root/.config/menus/:/etc/xdg/menus/

As far as being proficient at technical writing, I have no experience, but
am willing to help if I can.  Anything an old wannabe can do?  As far as
tutorials or setup instructions, would it not be better if it was written by
a dummy who has done it successfully and can relay the steps in plain terms,
so that other lay people can understand?  I believe I can fulfill the
requirements of a dummy.

Gary


On 2/13/06, Gmail Collector <bigcollector8 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> 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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> > kde-kiosk at kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-kiosk
>
>
>
> 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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