Sounds promising. Making the home directory non-writable might be
unrealistic ,maybe just having the users $HOME cleared on log out would
be better?
Any comments on how good that would work
Virtual Sky Media Group wrote:
>On Thursday 21 December 2006 5:11 pm, robm wrote:
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>>-The logged on user can not modify the desktop or install software
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>Granted, I haven't tested this theory, but could you not restrict the altering
>of the desktop by reconfiguring the ownership and/or permissions of the .kde
>(if you were using KDE) directory?
>
>Make .kde readable but not writable by the user. This would prevent changes,
>would it not?
>
>Making the default user /home directory only readable would then prevent new
>software from being installed, too. The only place that can be saved to
>would be your Samba share.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>-David.
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