Hi David,
KDE has configuration files like any desktop environment. You can
always create a test user for each profile and set up the desktop
exactly as it should be for members of that group. Then, add some
scripting at some point during login, but before KDE is launched
(Xsession, for example), to make sure that $USER has the correct KDE
configuration files in their home directory. But this is messy and when
KDE3.0 comes out, you'll probably have to revise all of your prototype
environments and perhaps your scripting as well.
I would suggest switching to IceWM. You can still use your KDE apps
(like Kword), but you have about 5% of the memory footprint of KDE.
Also, IceWM is smart enough to check the existence and executability of
the items in its menus and toolbar items before mapping them. It will
simply skip over programs that the user cannot run. Then, you can just
assign users to groups that correspond to certain programs and make the
programs group executable only. Then each user only receives the option
to run programs that he or she has access to run and management becomes
separate from the particulars of the configuration files of the desktop
environment.
Jason
> From: "Rose, David " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:05:00 -0500
>
>>Hello. Just installed LTSP and got it working. So far, everything looks
>>awesome! A question that I have is, I would like to make 'profiles' --
>>both with regard to rights to the file system and to having a common
>>desktop appearance / certain programs available to the user.
>>
>>
> I understand how to make groups and give the group rights to the
> file system; however, for creating 'groups' of users which have a certain
> KDE configuration I don't have this answer. If I were to have 10 graphic
> artists who were to use KWord and GIMP; 5 finance people who were to use
> gnumeric and kword, etc.; how would I set up the LTSP server so I could
> easily manage who gets what apps (and menu)? Citrix has userprof.man file
> which states which programs a person can use, and which icons are displayed.
> Does LTPS?
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