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It is also possible, although not recommended, to distribute profiles to different locations.
Uncheck Store all profiles under the same directory in the configuration dialog. Having
done so, you must specify the Directory for this profile when creating a profile.
Deploying Profiles to a Remote Machine
The KIOSK Admin Tool configuration (Settings > Configure KIOSK Admin Tool) lets
you specify a location on a remote host to which to upload the profiles when exiting
the tool. This upload mechanism uses the fish protocol. The Server URL field in the
configuration dialog is initialized with fish://root@host/. Replace root with
the user to which the files on the remote server should belong and host with the remote
hostname. By default, the same directory as on the local host is used. To change this,
click Open file dialog to specify a new directory on the remote server. After entering
the password for the remote user, you can browse directories. By default, the directory
on the local host is appended to the Server URL specified. Use Strip off to change this.
By default, KDE expects its profiles in /var/lib/kde-profiles. If you are de-
ploying them to this directory on a remote machine or to a directory on an NFS server
that will be mounted with this path by the clients, no further interaction is required.
Otherwise, adjust /etc/kde3rc. See
kdelibs/kdecore/doc/README.kiosk
11.1.5 Example: Creating and Assigning a
In the following example, a profile called myCompany is created and assigned to the
user tester on the remote host testserver.
1 Start the Kiosk Admin Tool from the KDE main menu or with Alt + F2 and the
2 Open the configuration dialog with Settings > Configure KIOSK. On the local
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command kiosktool.
machine, all profiles are stored in /var/lib/kde-profiles by default.
Also by default, users with a UID lower than 500 are not displayed.
The profile in this example should be deployed to a remote host named
testserver in the default profile location. Therefore, activate On exit and
change the Server URL to fish://root@testserver/.
http://lxr.kde.org/source/KDE/
for details.