KDE Kiosk - Battening Down the Hatches (KDE.News)

[Posted April 26, 2005 by ris]

KDE.News points to an article by Barry O'Donovan on KDE Kiosk. "The KDE Kiosk is a framework that has been built into the K Desktop Environment since version 3. It allows administrators to create a controlled environment for their users by customising and locking almost any aspect of the desktop which includes the benign such as setting and fixing the background wallpaper, the functional such as disabling user log outs and access to the print system and the more security conscientious such as disabling access to a command shell."

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KDE Kiosk for the homeless

Posted Apr 27, 2005 15:05 UTC (Wed) by bkeepers (guest, #13299) [Link]

I deployed several computers running KDE configured as a Kiosk at a local homeless shelter for people to search for jobs and create resumes. It has worked great so far. I locked it down so that all they could do was open the icons on the desktop: Firefox, OpenOffice, and the floppy drive.