Oh (he said sheepishly) and will they all have their own login? and can not 
all be a member of group samedesk?

On Sunday 09 September 2001 17:08, you had thoughts to the concept of:
> Normally I would agree with you, but in this case, there will be upwards of
> 18,000+ users. That's the membership of the place I work (normal real job).
> That's the reason I need to lock the desktop down. That way, it'll be
> consistent (although somewhat limited ) for all users.
>
> Lanman
>
> On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:00 am, you wrote:
> > I would wonder if it might be easier to allow each user to have their own
> > desktop the way they want, and remove or add them to groups that have
> > device permissions?
> >
> > On Sunday 09 September 2001 09:20, Lanman wrote:
> > > I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me out with 2 small
> > > problems. I'm in the process of trying to "Lock Down" KDE on Mandrake
> > > 8.0 . In other words, I'm trying to remove some functionality. If
> > > successful, users will only have the ability to click on designated
> > > icons on the desktop. So far, I've been able to get rid of the panel
> > > (taskbar), I've made the desktop "read-only", gotten rid of the
> > > "right-click" option on the desktop, and changed permissions on the
> > > remainig icons to read and execute only.
> > >
> > > My last few problems are as follows;
> > >
> > > 1) After removing the panel and right-click menu, I no longer have a
> > > simple way to "Log-Off" the users, short of using the
> > > CTRL-ALT-Backspace keystroke. I assume that since log-offs can be done
> > > by clicking a button on the panel, that there is a command that will
> > > work, but I have no idea what it is.  The "logout" command - when run
> > > from a console will not work, and it suggests that I use "exit", which
> > > only closes the console. What I need is a command that will start the
> > > log-off process by using an icon.
> > >
> > > 2) I need to eliminate the "right-click" option when the mouse-pointer
> > > is positioned over an icon.
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > Lanman
> >
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