Re: Limiting actions and other restrictions by using unix groups

On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:40, Gmail Collector wrote:
> I have googled hundreds of pages, all of which refer to "groups" as the
> headings (or similar) within the configuration files.  

Quite possible in this context ;)

> When I use the kiosk admin tool, I get the impression that I can control
> features by different unix groups (listed in /etc/groups).

That's also true.

The word "group" has two different meanings in the Kiosk context. One being 
the Unix group, and one being the Config Group.

> This is the behavior that I am searching for, however my attempts at setting
> up group restrictions have failed.  Is there a "howto" or tutorial regarding
> the setting up of "unix group" restrictions, or am I missing the whole
> picture? 

I don't think there's a tutorial covering just this. Most Kiosk tutorials 
probably *do* cover the group setup as part of a bigger whole though.
At least it's the most natural way to set up bigger systems, so I expect 
tutorials to cover this subject.

What exactly is not going as expected? The general procedure is as follows:

1. Create the appropriate Unix group
2. Make the test user member of the group
3. Configure a kiosk profile and assign it to the group
4. Make sure there is no profile assigned to the user, since user profiles 
take precedence over group profiles, disabling the group profile

Does that help?

-- 
Martijn