Limiting Desktop access
 

What is the easiest way to limit access to the KDE environment in Red Hat 8? For example I only want the mozilla browser to be accessible to a logged in user and nothing else. I would want to make the desktop unavailable to an always logged in user, but have full access to it in root. Is there something I can configure in the .profile file or what? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

"What is the easiest way to limit access to the KDE environment in Red Hat 8? For example I only want the mozilla browser to be accessible to a logged in user and nothing else. I would want to make the desktop unavailable to an always logged in user, but have full access to it in root. Is there something I can configure in the .profile file or what? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you."

You can restrict the programs that a user can access by giving that user a restricted PATH. For example you could create a directory called /usr/limited. In /usr/limited you would have symbolic links to the programs that /usr/limited can access. You would then set the user's PATH=/usr/limited.

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