Hi Greg,
Greg Rodenhiser schrieb:
Thanks for responding.... I had read that documentation. However the
documentation assumes that somehow there's already existing session
descriptors installed. They reference selecting a session type from the
Kiosk Tab in the web GUI. My Kiosk tab only says that I need to install
at least one session descriptor. Where can I find information on
creating one? Thanks!!
On Linux there is no predefined Kiosk Mode session descriptor that comes
with SRSS, only the uttsc session that comes with SRWC[*].
On Solaris we deliver predefined desktop-style sessions based on CDE and
JDS. The closest equvalent for Linux would be a Gnome-based
desktop-style session. We don't include a supported Gnome-based session
for Linux in this release. The main reason is, that 'Gnome on Linux' is
not a well-defined target. The different Linux distributions we support
contain vendor-customized releases of different Gnome versions. A main
issue for Kiosk Sessions is locking down the environment, so that
unauthenticated kiosk users don't get full access to the host machine.
In the Solaris JDS sessions we use lockdown interfaces that Sun has
added to Gnome and which are not available in the Gnome versions used by
RHEL AS 4 or SLES 9.
I am working on creating a sample Gnome Kiosk session for Linux that I
can publish, maybe via the Think Thin blog. Until I have that ready, you
can also try to take the contents of the SUNWkio-jds3 Solaris package
and adapt it to your Linux flavor.
Documentation for session and application descriptors currently exists
as manual pages. Try
man -M /opt/SUNWkio/man kiosk
I am also planning to write an article about creating kiosk sessions,
with examples.
HTH
Regards
- Jörg Barfurth
[*] In the SRSS4.0U2 Beta, the uttsc kiosk integration is a separate
package, which comes with SRSS and needs to be manually installed from
the Supplemental/Kiosk_Mode_4.0 section. In the final release this will
be installed as part of the SRWC install.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:15:33 -0400
"Greg Rodenhiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
> Has anyone gotten kiosk mode to work on Linux? I installed the
latest beta
> 2 on RHEL 4AS. It appears that CAM has been renamed to
kiosk. However I
> cannot find any documentation on configuring kiosk mode for
linux. When I
> try to via the web GUI I get an error saying a session descriptor
has not
> been installed. Does anyone know how to get this working? I
can't find
> anything in Sun's documentation. Thanks!!
>
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