Kiosk mode for family members

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Hi All,
I picked up from all the suggestions above. Many thanks community!!! :slight_smile:
This is what I did:

  1. created user “kiosk” as standard user
  2. set up autologin for kiosk (both points can be done in KDE System Settings)
  3. optional: set up my wlan and vpn usable for all the users
  4. reboot (only to check autlogin works fine)
  5. in System Settings set autostart firefox (know I’m the user kiosk)
  6. open konsole
  7. chmod 555 of all visible directories (I kept all the “invisble” dirs as they were)
  8. chmod 555 . (home dir also readonly)
  9. cd .config/plasma-workspace/env
  10. create a file whatevername.sh
  11. edit the file and insert one line: export KDE_HOME_READONLY=1
  12. run menu editor and remove all the applications → menu wil be empty

Solution need improvements:
a) a user knowledgeable of linux knows how to acces “.dirs”, that are still not protected
b) I still need to find a way to “lock” bookmarks
c) only menus are empty, all installed app still can be run from “start”, if one know the names

… I’m lucky, nobody else has knowldge in the family of unix/linux :slight_smile: … for now solution is acceptable!

Thanks all

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