[lug] KDE

[Peter Hutnick]

jeremy wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Does any one know of a great link to lock down a KDE session.  I am using 
> the Linux Terminal Server Project, and would like to make it really hard 
> for my users to open unauthorized programs, and get into any mischief.
> 
> I would like this config to be system wide so I would not have edit each 
> users .kde/share/config, or whatever config.  Are there Security Policies 
> in Linux (Redhat 7.2)  that are simular to a Windows2000 active directory 
> group policy?
> 
> Thanks for your time

UNIX has a pretty powerful security model.  Why try to re-invent this in 
the window manager?  Even if you have some great answer to that, 
wouldn't a user be able to easily side-step that "security" by not using 
KDE?

I think you should look into using file modes/ownership and user groups 
to manage this.  This all works largely the way it works in NT/Win2k. 
Did you think that that stuff was MS innovation?  (They call file modes 
"NTFS permissions".)

-Peter