Hi Shawn --
Thanks for the options. I'm familiar with some of the ways to restore a
desktop to its' original configuration at the next login -- I need a way
(as in Deep Freeze) to *prevent* the user from changing icons or the
desktop wallpaper during the session. We have a small contingent of YAs
who love to play "shock the librarian" with their choice of (ahem)
scenery ... To my knowledge this type of lockdown is a standard feature
for most programs written to help manage public-use computers in a
library setting.
-- Darrell
Shawn Boyette ☠ wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Darrell Eifert
<[email protected]> wrote:
a small
program to set folder permissions may be able to lock down a Gnome or KDE
desktop to prevent users from changing icons, menus, or wallpaper.
Option 1: Why lockdown?. Simply make a snapshot of the desktop As You
Want It, and everytime someone logs in, overwrite the dotfiles with
the stock ones. Everyone gets the default desktop everytime they
login, no matter what. Unix is all text files; take advantage of it.
Option 2: Why lockdown? If you have persistent user identifiers of any
sort, *stash* the user's desktop at logout and *restore* it at login.
If someone horks things beyond repair, log 'em out, nuke their config
set, and they get the default on next login. Everybody gets *their*
desktop, everytime they login, no matter what. Unix is all text files;
take advantage of it.
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Darrell Eifert
Head of Adult Services
Lane Memorial Library, Hampton NH
"Beware the man of only one book"
Old Latin proverb
