Hi all, I have a number of workstations minus HDD booting into RH7.2 and GNOME. Very nice, but the students want to play with the desktop (of course). I want to be able to lockit down so that at least on each restart it is back to the same. So is this possible?
Step 1: Make a copy of the . files in a users directory to some other place(there are only a few users, all should be the same) Step2: On bootup/login (not sure which) have the old profile directories deleted and replaced with the pre-saved ones. This needs to bo on the Workstaion restart not the server. If this seems OK, what commands could I use and where would I put them? I assume that I need to delete, copy, chown/chgrp, set permissions. Or would it be better to have a copy for each user already owned by them? There is plenty of space for that as there will onlyever be one user per machine for a total of 16. I have already made a copy of the .files, after much grief and messing about with cp /home/username/.* /home/master/.* (BTW this copies all the dot files into the /home directory) PS. I am still trying to get my head around .xinitrc so that only Mozilla launces and if they shut it the whole thing shuts down. _________________________________________ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _________________________________________ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
