Re: Locking down the desktop

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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@xxxxxx > 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

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx >
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org


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