[wplug] Locking down user rights...

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Friday 19 September 2003 01:13,  wrote:
> We're running Redhat 8.x in our office environment with Gnome and the
> Ximian Desktop..
>
> All of our workstations have one login for all users to use.  I've
> been put up to the task of finding a way to prevent users from doing
> too much customizing of their desktop's, etc..

This link explains what you want, but for KDE only.

http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/
README.kiosk?rev=1.18.2.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Some ideas are applicable to any environment, though. (immutable flag 
through the filesystem, say)

This post talks about GNOME, and instead of locking, re-setting to 
defaults each time the user logs on:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2000-September/msg00557.html

-A
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