Locking Down the KDE Desktop

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tarheel92x

Beginner

Posts: 3

Saturday, April 3rd 2004, 9:00pm

Locking Down the KDE Desktop

I am in the process of setting up some kiosk pc's using ltsp [www.ltsp.org] and I am interested in locking down the kde desktop to prevent user tampering. I would like a plain desktop with no 'task bar' and only desktop icons. I have reviewed the KDE sys admin documentation and feel that this is possible. I am a beginner at this and would like to know of success stories doing this and possibly some advice/tips on getting started. I understand some perl script and some plain text file configuration.

Thanks in advance.

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cmbofh

Intermediate

Posts: 539

Saturday, April 3rd 2004, 11:49pm

Re: Locking Down the KDE Desktop

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Original von tarheel92x

I am in the process of setting up some kiosk pc's using ltsp [www.ltsp.org] and I am interested in locking down the kde desktop to prevent user tampering. I would like a plain desktop with no 'task bar' and only desktop icons. I have reviewed the KDE sys admin documentation and feel that this is possible. I am a beginner at this and would like to know of success stories doing this and possibly some advice/tips on getting started. I understand some perl script and some plain text file configuration.

Thanks in advance.

I think the following gives a lot more information than the short introduction in the sysadmin documentation:
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk
Make sure to pick the version of this README that corresponds to your
KDE version! The following is the current one for the KDE 3.2 branch
as of the time of this writing:
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?rev=1.45.2.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_BRANCH

It seems there's already a GUI tool in the works to set all those restrictions:
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool.php
I don't know how usable this already is, though, AFAIK it's not been released.

But the KDE kiosk framework itself is definitely working.

HTH.