Thanks for the replies I've gotten so far... From them I guess I didn't really express clearly what I'm trying to do.. Even being somewhat new still to Linux I realize that with the permissions set right the users *shouldn't* be able to seriously mess things up like on a windows machine (e.g. changing/deleting system files, etc).
I just don't want them poking around... how does the expression go "ignorance is bliss." ... ? Some people think I'm extreme for this but on my windows machines here (particularly lab computers), the c: drive is hidden entirely... All they can see is the programs they can run, their network drive and the disk drive... (and that's all they need to see). That's kind of the same thing I want to do with a graphical shell on Linux. Maybe it's totally not worth my while to bother with it... (hence all my references to "practicality"). I would love it if there were a file manager program out there that would allow me to set its root directory to the user home directory, for example. Maybe I'm just rambling and still not getting out what I want, I dunno. It was worth a shot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi All, > >I would like to make my users have access to some sort of graphical shell >/ filemanager (which term is more correct?)... Kind of like windows >explorer, only I don't want them to have easy access to the server's >directory tree. (Since most of them are teenage kids and some of them >like to try and "break things") . > >Any advice how to go about this? > ><Shot in the dark>: Is it possible (and practical) to use Nautilus or some >other program and set it up in some sort of "chroot jail" (quoting from >Linux Magazine) so that they get a "My documents" window with correct file >associations (word docs to open office, jpgs to an image viewer, etc) but >no easy access to outside directories? Anybody done this or can help me >figure out how to do it for several hundred users? (the practical aspect). > >I'm currently running IceWM over GDM on RH 7.2. > >I know they can find ways to get around something like this, but I'm just >trying to make it not so straight forward... while still providing for >some measure of convenience O:-) > >Thoughts? TIA > >________________________________________ >David M. Leuser, II * Assistant Network Administrator >New Hampton School * PH/Fax Direct: (603) 677-3451 >77 Main Street * New Hampton, NH 03256 >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >"I'm sorry if the correct way of doing things offends you" -- The Unix >game of Fortune > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.NET email is sponsored by: >SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! >http://www.vasoftware.com >_____________________________________________________________________ >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ________________________________________ David M. Leuser, II * Assistant Network Administrator New Hampton School * PH/Fax Direct: (603) 677-3451 77 Main Street * New Hampton, NH 03256 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "I'm sorry if the correct way of doing things offends you" -- The Unix game of Fortune ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
