__/ [ J.O. Aho ] on Monday 05 June 2006 12:52 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ J.O. Aho ] on Sunday 04 June 2006 15:41 \__
>>
>>> Rui Maciel wrote:
>>>> It seems that it isn't possible to stop the users from adding/removing
>>>> icons from the taskbar and doing all sorts of desktop configuration. It
>>>> isn't even possible to stop them from "unblocking" the status bar.
>>>>
>>>> So is there a way to stop the users from configuring KDE's desktop?
>>> chown root:root -R ~username/.kde
>>> chmod 775 -R ~username/.kde
>>>
>>> This would disallow users from making a permanent change in any kde
>>> program or in kde itself, this can of course lead to that some programs
>>> won't work properly as they can't write or create files in the ~/.kde
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> IMHO users in a multiuser environments should have their right to
>>> configure things.
>>
>> Definitely. If the OP intends to have one 'uniform' account for many
>> users, I would discourage this. You can create, let us day, 100 user
>> accounts (storage-wise, it's cheap), customise just one of these accounts
>> and then replicate .kde (among other 'dot' directories) across accounts to
>> have a 'default' setting to all. E.g.:
>>
>> sudo cp -r /home/defaultuser/.kde /home/user01/
>> sudo cp -r /home/defaultuser/.kde /home/user02/
>> sudo cp -r /home/defaultuser/.kde /home/user03/
>>
>> [...]
>
> thats a bit slow IMHO, when you have the magic of /etc/skel where you can
> have all the default settings a user should have and when you create a new
> user, it will automatically get those settings included in their home
> directory.
Aha! Nice one. I knew there would be *something*, *somewhere*. I suppose that
the best solution, after all, would have to be specialised software for
kiosks, or http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/ , as Konrad suggested.
Best wishes,
Roy
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