[K12OSN] Setting a default, non-customizable desktop

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Dan Young wrote:

>Christopher K. Johnson said:
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>>Peter Deakin wrote:
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>>>Changing permissions on .gconf to 740  so that there is no write
>>>access and changing ownership to root which prevents group and others
>>>making any changes. This will stop anyone from changing backgrounds,
>>>view rights and stops theme changes. I guess this might be too
>>>restrictive so you could experiment with permissions on specific flies
>>>in this directory to achieve what you want.
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>>Of course a knowledgable user can simply delete .gconf since it is in
>>what must remain a user writable directory - their home.
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>>But it would at least prevent customization until someone figures that
>>out.
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>What about "chattr -R +i .gconf"?
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That should do it as long as it's in an ext2/3 filesystem ;)
If homes are nfs mounted, make the change on the nfs server that 
exported them.

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