Riffer
July 5th, 2008, 04:16 PM
I've trying to resurrect some old machines (PIII 196 megs RAM) at school using Ubuntu/Linux. And while there is great distros out there that would "almost" be great, I keep running into the same problem, locking down the desktop.
The goal is to have stand alone machines with very few apps (browser, word processor, etc.) and have the desktop locked down so that a guest user cannot change any of the settings. This machine while having internet access, will not have access to the school network, other then printing to a set printer.
And while this can be accomplished using Gnome or KDE, I haven't been able to find a way to do it in the smaller desktop environments.
I was thinking though that it might be just a case of setting folder and file permissions. If I set it so that ALL files and folder can only be change by a super user, will that stop the ability for guest users from changing desktop settings? And if thats the case is there a way that I can set these permissions quickly and easily.
Thanks
The goal is to have stand alone machines with very few apps (browser, word processor, etc.) and have the desktop locked down so that a guest user cannot change any of the settings. This machine while having internet access, will not have access to the school network, other then printing to a set printer.
And while this can be accomplished using Gnome or KDE, I haven't been able to find a way to do it in the smaller desktop environments.
I was thinking though that it might be just a case of setting folder and file permissions. If I set it so that ALL files and folder can only be change by a super user, will that stop the ability for guest users from changing desktop settings? And if thats the case is there a way that I can set these permissions quickly and easily.
Thanks