Hi John,

you are almost correct with everything you say and definitely heading in the 
right direction

> We now have a reason to begin to explore the use of kiosk mode.  Because I 
> want to disrupt existing use minimally, I thought that I would start by 
> trying to set up one smart card to that it would be tied to a kiosk-mode 
> session and then locally configure our kiosk session with the handful of 
> applications that we want to be available in kiosk mode which will likely 
> include a custom Java Web Start app (that has it's own authentication), 
> access to the firefox browser, and maybe access to ssh.

sounds like a good idea. Another idea would be to install a test environment 
and play with that. SRS runs in virtualbox aswell.

> Thus far, I've run utpolicy -k to create a collection of utku* kiosk-mode 
> users.

So you have not been using kiosk mode before, just plain old regular sessions?

> What I can't seem to find is proper syntax of the utuser command that would 
> register that smart card appropriately for kiosk use.
> 
> Is this a command-line usage that would work to tie a particular smart card 
> token to one of the utku* users?
> 
> utuser -a "<tokenID>,,,utku23,"
> 
> Am I also correct that in general I'd want to tie each smart card token to a 
> different utku* user to avoid kiosk-mode session collisions/confusion?

Almost right. The username you specify here does not have to be a regular unix 
user and does have nothing to do with these accounts. You would not specify a 
kiosk user here. Use the name of the owner of the card (or simply 'testuser'). 
This is mostly for your own information.

Then, use utkioskoverride -s kiosk -r TOKENID 

to specify that this smart card should be redirected to a kiosk session. Then, 
kill or exit your current session with that token (utsession -k -t TOKENID) and 
your kiosk session should come up.

> Or am I hopelessly confused by this kiosk-mode stuff and how to use the utku* 
> users?

Nope, the only issue I really wanted to mention is that the smartcard owner has 
nothing to do with real unix user accounts. The utku* accounts will be used 
automatically by the SR server. the first kiosk session will be startet by 
utku01, the second one  by utku02 and so on.

Bjoern
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