SSH protocol and the usual fish:// semantics or any other protocol that is 

supported by the KDE networking framework.

Figure 5 4   Remote configuration with the Kiosk Admin Tool

5.1.2  The Kiosk Administration GUI tool

While exploring the lockdown possibilities of the KDE Kiosk Admin Tool you will 

find some similarities with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), which you 

can see in Figure 5 5 on page 96. The Kiosk framework not only visually hides 

entities and features of the desktop, but makes them really unusable. Even if the 

lockdown options of the Kiosk Admin Tool look quite simple, you have to know 

that under the hood you can configure and fine tune a lot more.

Disabling Alt+F2 (run command) and access to a command shell might be 

interesting options for a public terminal, but one has to be aware of the fact that it 

is quite easy to open a shell (xterm) with Mozilla, so one has to take care of that, 

too, by other methods than the Kiosk framework, which Mozilla does not use. 

When you disable the logout option you also have to disable shutting down the X 

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