Hi Tinus,
I think you found the best approach for your problem. There is no better
solution than removing write/modify rights in user directory, because
this is not an officially supported feature of OpenOffice.org.
Probably this will cause some trouble, especially for the OpenOffice
registry. Please inform us about such problems.
Regards
Ingo
Tinus wrote:
Hi
I am responsible for a lab of around 300 computers for graduate students.
They
use Novell logins as network logins and all of them use the same local user
on
the machine to log on. The machines are set up so that no settings remain on
the machine after login(previous users login data on local machine is
deleted).
I would like to give the students a choice of choosing either MS office or
OpenOffice. My problem is to protect OpenOffice from the students. When I am
finished with the machine I want every user that log into the machine to
have
the same settings I have left for them, not saving any settings the previous
logged in user has made.
So far I have been successfull with the lockdown by removing write/modify
rights
from the user in almost all the directories in the
DocumentsAndSettings\StudentUser\ApplicationData\OpenOffice\user directory.
However I don't feel this is the best way to do a lock down. Are there any
other way? It is not required that the user be able to change any settings
from
the Tools|Options section.
If I however stay with permissions on the users home directory, is there
anything that I should be watching for that might crash office? I have found
that locking the registry directory causes a freeze in OpenOffice Writer's
startup.
I am currently testing the setup with OpenOffice 2 Beta 1974 on Windows XP
SP2
with Java 1.4.2 also on the system installed.
Thankyou for any help or suggestions.
Regards
Tinus
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NARGA Technical Official
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Tel: +27 21 808 2562
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