locking down the desktop

[Ismael Farfán Estrada]

« La adolescencia es el periodo de tu vida en el que piensas que la masturbación es algo transitorio. »~ Hombre resigando.


> 
> If ~user/Desktop is owned by root and ~user is owned by user, user can
> delete the Desktop folder and recreate it with their own ownership.
> This is because user has ownership of the parent directory.
> 
> 	gavin at chris:~ $ sudo mkdir tmp1
> 	gavin at chris:~ $ ls -la tmp1/
> 	total 8
> 	drwxr-xr-x  2 root  root  4096 2008-01-21 15:12 .
> 	drwxr-xr-x 55 gavin gavin 4096 2008-01-21 15:12 ..
> 	gavin at chris:~ $ rmdir tmp1
> 	gavin at chris:~ $ ls -la tmp1/
> 	ls: tmp1/: No such file or directory
> 
> You could make the home directory owned by root, but that would probably
> break a host of other things.
> 
> Gavin
> 

Whell, my windows users hardly know what "owner" means, so it may work for me

If it is no possible to lock the desktop...
what about a cron script such that it cleans the desktop directory every day?

the script would change the owner and permission every day and then clean
the desktop as happens with /tmp

the users will have to fight agans a deamon and sooner or later they'll give up...

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