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Re: Q;Resetting Profiles?



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Alex Brasetvik wrote:
| Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
|
|> [Ralf]
|>
|>> As explanation: I am talking about generic user accounts, one for
|>> each thin client, that can be used until everybody owns their own
|>> account...
|
|
|> I believe it is a bad idea to not have separate accounts for each
|> person.  You will open a can of worms with people doing bad things
|> without any accountability.
|
|
| Agreed.
|
| However, in newer versions of KDE you may set up a fixed,
| unchangeable interface with the Kiosk mode. This might be useful
| in for instance the school librariy with a terminal on which you
| can only search for books.

Is such "fixed unchangeable interface" a truly read-only account (that
is, one where the user does not even have write access to ~/.bashrc)?

If not it is a huge security hole lurking!

~ - Jonas

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* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
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