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Old 02-22-2004, 05:10 PM   #1
linuxxed
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Restricted desktop


Hi Peeps,

I've always been a comandline guy but I've been tasked with producing multiple machines with KDE. The idea
is to restrict access to eveything but a browser, email client and a
few entries in the start menu. So far I've used the control centre and
menu to customise a desktop but what do I do about the context menus
in the task bar . A right click displays options like "menu editor",
"add" etc etc. How do I disable this?

The "Run" and "Find Files" items are not controllable by the menu
editor or the control centre. I want to disable that too including hot
keys etc.

I was thinking of customizing one desktop and then copying the .kde
directory to all other desktops and make root as the owner. Will this
work or is there another way of doing it?

Any help would be muchly appreciated.

Thanks
linuxxed
 
Old 02-23-2004, 12:11 AM   #2
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hmm sounds like it might be easyer to just remake the desktop itself, anyways, having the usable programs somone can use should be put into a sperate directoy then every other dicectoy program should be made inacseesable to teh user, (example, /sbin is uaualy restricted to root only while /bin is for everyone you can use something like that to conrtol what programs a perosn can acess), i nevver used kde, but thsoe options might be hardcoded into teh program itself

have you concirerd just deleting kde and installing the window mapanger, file manager and whatnot sepratly?, this should make it easyer to address thsoe security concerns as if you wanted you dont have to have a file manager or terminal emualter, jsut some stupid box that can run programs that are hardcoded into it (this will make it so people will have a hard time runing programs there not suposed to)
 
Old 03-04-2004, 02:49 PM   #3
angelascanio
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Windows "Group Policy" equivalent in Linux?

Hi, I'm having the same problem using Mandrake 9.2

Does anybody know how to deploy a "Group Policy" equivalent in Linux?

I want to restrict several icons, options, and applications when the user logs in.

I'm a Windows 2003 server administrator, and I've been using Mandrake 9.2 for 3 weeks for testing purposes.

Thanks in advance for your answer.
 
  


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