locking down the desktop

[btabor]

Students can save to their individual network folders if they need to save
something.
They are cluttering their desktops with "stuff" that they do not need at
school (non educational).
I'm wandering if a deep-freeze type script would be the best way to go.
Any thoughts?



Gavin McCullagh-3 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Barb Tabor wrote:
> 
>> I am having trouble finding out to prevent students from saving to the
>> desktop (using Gutsy).  Any suggestions?
> 
> It's a slightly strange request -- to not allow them write information to
> a folder in their own home directory.  Have you given users their own
> accounts, or is it one shared account?
> 
> I guess you can probably do it by removing write permissions on the
> directory:
> 	chmod a-w ~<username>/Desktop/
> 
> This is something they could undo, but I'm guessing you're just trying to
> keep things tidy.  If it's a security issue (?) 
> 
> The main program which will write to the desktop is probably firefox, so
> you can reconfigure firefox to not save to the desktop -- that might be
> all
> you need.
> 
> Gavin
> 
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