Multiple logins on same ID

[Tim]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 17:42 +0530, Saurabh Jain (सौरभ जैन) wrote:

> I run a diskless cluster where all clients boot from the same Fedora
> installation. Is it safe to let multiple people login with the same
> ID, and use Gnome and OO? They will be sharing the same user home
> directory.

Why do that?  It sounds a recipe for disaster.  Perhaps if you mention
why it's too difficult to manage individual IDs per student, someone can
suggest an easy way of handling that for you.

> Also, is there a way to disable users from changing their Gnome and
> other preferences? Most of my users are school children, using the
> same login on multiple computers. When one kid changes the desktop
> background on one terminal, the next time round, everyone's desktop
> background changes. I want to prohibit such changes.

That's just one reason why you have separate log-ins per user.

Setting various configuration files as read-only, or owned by the root
user and readable-only by other users, *might* be a way of handling
that.

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