On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 02:24:49AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > users can be prevented from changing home page,
> 
> Out of curiosity: what exactly does this contribute to workstation
> security?

Security is, as we all know, a noble goal for which people are willing
to pay.

In this case there seems to be no real security issue (other than
plugging some very silly user-interface holes of Explorer). The goal is
generally reducing management costs of workers misconfiguring their
station.

There is an obvious tradeoff to the fact that people have less freedom
to customize their working environment.

Here is a related issue:

Debian hes several packages of extensions for mozilla products. But
normally the standard way to install extensions is to download from the
browser. For each user. For each user. For each user. Again and again.

Last time I asked on #debian how do I make a deb out of an extension I
was discourged and sugested to install extensions manually for users.

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