Prevent users from editing menu/desktop shortcuts. (bugs?)

nuser fakeact at bol.com.br
Sun Jul 9 05:05:49 CEST 2006


 I'm using XFCE 4.3.90.1, the options you pointed are not present on /usr/share/doc/xfdesktop4 (debian etch docs for this package, and I guess not on the original source tarball since debian packaging steps almost always copy this kind of file from the source tarball) neither on 
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/docs-4.2/ (http://www.xfce.org/documentation/docs-4.2/xfdesktop.html). I tried them, and they worked, thank you.
 But I had some problems, all users were able to change splash, even when I told NONE or root to kioskrc; The same happened with logout options, the chooser (session chooser settings), and compatibility; Unfortunally, when users were not with the right to change these last 3, and they did, they were not able to shutdown, even with ALL, or their logins specified on the kioskrc "Shutdown" option. I tried everything, deleted their home, purged (remove package and conf files/dirs) xfce4 (everything). Now just the users the were already on the system can shutdown, I removed /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk dir, because it did not exist, added some users, did not change any setting, even so, not able to shutdown the machine. These new users and those that are able to shutdown have the same system privileges (even copied old user home to new user home). 
 On production machines I'll forbid users to change menus, desktop icons, panel, and hope they will not try to change logout and session settings, so this wont happen again. Maybe I´ll remove the shortcut to the mcs-manager.

These are the current settings
---- /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc
[xfce4-panel]
CustomizePanel=NONE
[xfce4-session]
CustomizeSplash=NONE
CustomizeChooser=ALL
CustomizeLogout=ALL
CustomizeCompatibility=ALL
CustomizeSecurity=NONE --> (also tried ALL)
Shutdown=ALL
[xfdesktop]
UserMenu=NONE
CustomizeBackdrop=NONE
CustomizeDesktopMenu=NONE
CustomizeWindowlist=NONE
CustomizeDesktopIcons=NONE
----

> nuser wrote:
> > 
> >  Is there a "kiosk" way to prevent menu editing at least? Or some other not so polite way (I' dont want to chattr +i on the menu files).
> 
> http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfdesktop/trunk/doc/README.kiosk
> 
> 	-brian




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