Locking down the desktop

[Justin Denick]

Chmod your ~someuser/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc file to 400 and users will
no longer be able to change their background images.

On 10/4/05, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 14:43, Martin Woolley wrote:
> > You lock down the desktop using the documents at
> > http://enterprise.kde.org/articles/ especially the articles "KDE Kiosk:
> > Battening Down the Hatches" and "KDE: The Korporate Desktop Environment"
> > Having followed the suggestions there-in, you think well that's it,
> nobody
> > will be able to change their wallpaper and then KDE applications allow
> > users to do it, there-by circumventing the corporate standard (well the
> > school standard anyway).
> >
> > Specifically KolourPaint includes options on the file menu to save your
> > image as the wallpaper. Also, if you drag an image from the Konqueror
> file
> > browser to the desktop, a pop up menu appears which includes an open to
> set
> > the wallpaper to the dragged image.
>
> Hmm, does it change the wallpaper after one chooses that option?
> If it doesn it could be considered a bug of KDesktop for accepting the
> change.
>
> > So, my question is, how do we lock down the desktop so that users cannot
> > change their wallpaper, taskbar settings etc? Removing the two
> > aforementioned options would be a big help. Does anyone know how to
> > disable these options?
>
> I suggest you ask on the kiosk mailinglist
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-kiosk
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
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