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Action Restrictions

KDE applications are built around the action-concept. Actions can be activated in various ways, typically via the menu-bar, one of the toolbars or a keyboard shortcut. Save Document is an example of an action. If you know the internal action name it is possible to restrict an action. When an action is restricted it will no longer appear in the menu-bar or toolbar. The internal name for the Save Document action is action/file_save . The lock down framework also provides a set of more abstract restrictions which can be used to disable functionality not covered by a single action. An example is the shell_access restriction which disables all functionality that would offer the user access to a UNIX� shell.

Example�26.1.�Restrict User Access to Shells

In order to prevent the user access to a command shell we can restrict the shell_access action by adding the following to kdeglobals:

[KDE Action Restrictions]
shell_access=false

Since this affects the KDE menu and the available applications, we must force an update of the sycoca database:





touch

 $
KDEDIR
/share/services/update_ksycoca


Now re-login to KDE and check the following points:

  • The K menu

  • In Konqueror, Tools -> Open Terminal

  • The Alt + F2 run command

Full documentation about available actions can be found on https://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/.

A few of the more interesting actions are listed below:

action/options_configure

The Configure option form the Settings menu

action/help_report_bug

The Report Bug option from the Help menu.

action/kdesktop_rmb

right mouse button mouse button menu on the desktop.

action/kicker_rmb

right mouse button mouse button menu on the panel.

user/root

Hide all actions or applications that require root access.

shell_access

Hides all actions or applications that provide shell access.

print/system

Disables the option to select the printing system (backend).

lock_screen

Whether the user will be able to lock the screen

start_new_session

Whether the user may start a second X session (see also kdm)

opengl_screensavers

Whether OpenGL screensavers are allowed to be used.

manipulatescreen_screensavers

Permit screensavers that do not hide the entire screen




 
 
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