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I am trying to set up a machine to be used as a kiosk. I am attempting to use the Kiosk Admin tool to lock down the desktop. I am new to all of this, and I haven't been successful in getting it to work. The restrictions that I set using the Kiosk Admin tool do not appear to get applied. I am hoping someone will be able to notice something I may have done wrong or missed. Here are the details:

I have installed:

Fedora 10
K Desktop Environment (KDE), release 3.5.10-3.fc10 Fedora
KIOSK Admin Tool 1.0 (using KDE 3.5.10-3.fc10 Fedora)

I have created a userid called 'kiosk'. I want this userid to have a locked down profile as I only intend for it to use the kiosk to browse the internet.

Using the Kiosk Admin tool, I have created a profiled called 'lock_down'. I created the profile while logged in as 'root'. I assigned the profile to the 'kiosk' userid. I disabled a bunch of things in the profile that I don't want the 'kiosk' userid to be able to do, such as disable Alt-F2 (run command).

After exiting the Kiosk Admin tool, the profile I created was written to:

/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/lock_down/share/config

In this directory there are a few files including the kdeglobals file. In the kdeglobals file, I can clearly see the options that I have selected to disable in the kiosk admin tool. For example, I have these lines:

[KDE Action Restrictions][$i]
lock_screen=false
logout=false
run_command=false

Unfortunately, when I log in with the 'kiosk' userid, none of the restrictions I have set in the 'lock_down' profile are working (Alt-F2 is not disabled, etc.)

The result of the running the kiosktool-kdedirs command is:

/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/lock_down/:/usr

The result of running kde-config --path config is:

/home/kiosk/,kde/share/config/:/etc/kde/:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/lock_down/share/config/:/usr/share/config/

Based on the results of these commands, I would think that I would see the results of the settings in the kdeglobals file that was created by the Kiosk Admin tool, but I am not. I realize there is another kdeglobals file in /home/kiosk/.kde/share/config for the user to do customization, but there is nothing I can see in there that would override the kdeglobals file under the lock_down directory.

Does anyone know why the settings in the profile are not getting applied to the userid that the profile is assigned to? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Susan