### Kiosk Mode

The Kiosk Mode can be used to support unauthenticated access to a Sun Ray session in a controlled manner. Unauthenticated access is useful in settings such as public kiosks, where users cannot be expected to provide authentication credentials. When authentication is expected to be carried out by other means than the standard UNIX login, as is the case for the Sun Ray Connector for Windows OS, Kiosk Mode is all but indispensible.

Note – Kiosk Mode is an optional component that may require additional installation steps. Ensure that Kiosk Mode has been configured (with the `utconfig` command) and that at least one session descriptor has been installed on the Sun Ray server. A session descriptor is a file that defines, at a minimum, an executable to be launched as the user session. All session descriptors are located in the /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions directory.

On the Kiosk Mode tab (under Advanced tab), you can choose a pre-defined session type. (Click on the Edit button to display the Session menu. The list of available session types is populated from the session descriptors installed on the server.) You can also specify other general properties that control Kiosk Mode behavior, such as Timeout, Maximum CPU Usage, and Maximum VM Size.

Some session types allow additional Kiosk applications to be launched. Not all sessions types support this ability. For example, it may make no sense for a Kiosk Full Screen Web browser session to have this capability. The applications table on the Kiosk Mode page is displayed or hidden depending on what session type is selected.

You can add a new Kiosk application by clicking the New button in the applications table and specify it using either a pre-defined application descriptor file (a file which lists the various properties for the application) or by specifying the path to an executable (or an application descriptor) on the server. All pre-defined application descriptors are located in the directory: /etc/opt/SUNWkio/applications.