"locking down" kdm

[Justin Denick]

gdm uses something like this
..............................................................................................................................................
 [root at ltsp root]# ls /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/
Blackbox  default  Default  Failsafe  FluxBox  GNOME  IceWM  KDE 
Reset your desktop  XFce4
[root at ltsp root]#
..............................................................................................................................................

While I run KDE exclusively at home, I do not have acces to the box
RN, so you'll have to take a look at you own box. However, the concept
would be to change the perms on these file so that only certain
groups/users can execute/read/write to them.

On 6/15/05, Mr Wiggles <astalavista.box.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running suse 9.1pro but I think this question is only specific to KDE
> (running 3.2) and not the distro...
> 
> How can I lock down kdm so that when users are logging in they are only
> able to login to a kde session? I have set this box up as a kiosk using
> kde-kiosk, sadly if they click menu (wouldnt mind getting rid of this
> button altogether) -> session type -> and select something else like admin
> or failsafe, or anything really.....they circumvent all the kiosk
> restrictions that we have in place.
> 
> /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/sessions contains .desktop files that people say
> reference all of the session types but there are session types that appear
> at the kdm login screen that do not appear in this dir and lots of .desktop
> files that are in this dir that do not appear as session type options at
> the login screen.
> 
> there is also the kdmrc file which I have heard contains a SessionType=
> line that specifies what sessions a user can select from but even after
> modifying this line nothing changes in the session type menu at the kdm
> login screen.
> 
> 
> So ideally...how can i remove the menu option from the login screen
> altogether, or alternatively how can i make it so that "KDE" is the only
> option under the session types drop down under the menu.
> 
> tia
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