Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 307

11.1.3 Assigning Profiles to Users and
Groups
When you create a profile, it is not "active" by default. First assign it to users or groups
first. Assign Profiles opens a dialog where you can assign all existing profiles to distinct
users or groups. If you are applying more than one profile to a user or group, settings
from all profiles are used. If a profile contains settings that conflict with settings in
another profile, the settings in the earlier listed profile take precedence. The same rule
applies if you apply a profile to a specific user and another profile to a group of which
this user is a member.
IMPORTANT: Users and Groups on Remote Hosts
You can assign profiles to groups and users available on the local machine. If
you are planning to deploy your profiles to a remote server, make sure that
the needed users and groups from the remote host are also available on the
local machine (for example, by using NIS).
11.1.4 Deploying Profiles
The KIOSK Admin Tool not only allows you to deploy profiles to the local machine,
but also to a remote computer. In doing so, you can, for instance, deploy the profiles
onto an NFS server from which they are exported to all clients on the network.
Deploying Profiles to the Local Machine
If you are deploying your profiles to the same machine as the KIOSK Admin Tools is
running on, no manual intervention is required—the tool takes care that the profiles are
"found" on start-up. By default, all profiles are stored in /var/lib/kde-profiles
to which only the user root is allowed to write. It is recommended not to change this
setting.
However, if you need to change the location to which the profiles are written, select
Settings > Configure KIOSK Admin Tool and change the Base directory.
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