locking down the desktop

[btabor]

All students log in the same (see the same desktop).
Then they can navigate to their network folders.
Obviously, from your "do you make sure they wipe themselves properly"
comment, you
do not understand the importance of not letting hundreds of teenagers save
whatever they
want to their school desktops. I am very new to Linux and trying to learn as
I go. I thought
signing up for this listserve would be helpful, but if you are just going to
poke fun......I am thinking
that this might not have been a good idea. I am just trying to figure things
out and do the best
I can. The high school computers with Edubuntu on them are looking a mess
and everyone is
complaining because the kids can save to the desktops, I was just trying to
figure out a way to
solve a problem that others have asked me to solve. If you feel the need to
make insensitive comments, then I guess I am looking in the wrong place for
answers.



Gavin McCullagh-3 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, btabor wrote:
> 
>> Students can save to their individual network folders if they need to
>> save
>> something.
> 
> Do they have accounts though, ie is this the user's own Desktop folder or
> are they logged in as some sort of guest account?
> 
>> They are cluttering their desktops with "stuff" that they do not need at
>> school (non educational).
> 
> Do you make sure they wipe themselves properly too?
> 
> You could just make the Desktop/ folder read-only and point firefox at
> some
> other directory (eg /tmp) for downloads.  This is stuff they can undo, but
> it sounds like they probably just need steering away from the desktop.
> It's difficult to make items in someone's home directory uneditable as
> they
> own the parent directory so they can always take ownership effectively if
> they know what they're doing.
> 
>> I'm wandering if a deep-freeze type script would be the best way to go.
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> I've no idea what that means.  You could just have a nightly script that
> moves all files off the desktop into /tmp.
> 
> Gavin
> 
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