On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:20, guenther wrote: > > How can I lock some settings of evolution over 500+ workstations? > > For instance, I want to lock the LDAP server hostname on the > > workstations. First time users would have nothing to setup and could > > not screw it up. Ideally, the configuration would lie on a server or > > NFS mount with read only access for the user. > > I'm not entirely sure about this, but here are some notes and thoughts > about this: > > The file /usr/share/evolution/1.4/default_user/addressbook-sources.xml > seems to be the source for the pre-defined addressbook. It should be > possible, to edit this.
...bearing in mind that updates will clobber the changed version. > The user configuration is stored in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ using > GConf. You probably can make this a link, but I doubt read-only will > work without major problems... http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.0/ has some advice on locking down GConf settings, but I think ~/evolution/addressbook-sources.xml is still used to define LDAP servers. It may not be a problem if that's read-only or a symlink to a file on a server (easier if an admin needs to change something), but I haven't tested that approach. -Mark Gordon _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
