On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I set up a donated computer for homeless adults who live in a > warehouse, and I would like to secure the desktop. The computer is > using Etch, with Gnome. > > The issue is that one of the residents will create hundreds of new > "untitled folders" on the desktop. Further, she'll mess around with > the panels, the shortcuts on the desktops, and sometimes change the > permissions on the home directory (ie, making the /home/guest directory > inaccessible, making booting into that user on the computer impossible > until I'm there to change it back). gdm is set up to automatically > boot into the guest user, without requiring a password. There is just > the one user for everyone (and root for me, when necessary). > > It's not a big deal, but undoing her mucking of the desktop is > something I'd rather not have to waste time with. One of the Debian folks(Kai Hendry) started a cool project called webconverger@ http://webconverger.com/ -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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