User Administration

[stephenliberty]

I'm trying to set up some default things for users when they first log in, or for users that already have accounts... such as plopping a link on everyone's desktop, or setting everyone's screensaver timeout to X depending on security rules.. that kind of thing. Is there any software that anyone knows of that does this already? Or am I going to have to homebrew something? (which might be a lot of fun)

I had originally looked at some manager for kde3, but it didn't look like it'd work for kde4 and I'm not even sure if it did what I am asking.

Thanks!
Stephen

[djennings]

I have never tried it, but there is xfce-kiosk in the repos
http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/kiosk_mode

[doktor5000]

If you want to do this for every user, why not just change the system defaults, so every new users gets that automatically?
For additions to newly created home directories, take a look at /etc/skel/ (from the etcskel package). The contents are copied
to every new users /home. So you could drop that desktop link inside there.

For kde3, jest you're right i believe there was some kiosk mode and a program called kiosktool which allowed similar changes.
Maybe you want to take a short look at http://dev-peterix.blogspot.com/2010/08 ... kde-4.html

[djennings]

A quick google reveals that while there is no kiosk set up tool in kde4, the functionality to implement kiosks is built into KDE4 through the kauth library. You would have to do some digging to find out how it works.

[stephenliberty]

Thanks folks, I'll start digging tonight. I had done a quick search but was hesitant to really get into it if someone had already done the work for me

[zugunder]

May happen, these 2 things (if I am not mistaken, not included into Mageia 1 by default) will be of some use:
kdepasswd
kuser

[doktor5000]

As far as i have looked, the kde3 kiosktool still works, but not to the full extent of what it should be capable of.

@zugunder: kuser is available for Mageia 1, FWIW.