locking down the desktop

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Ismael Farfán Estrada wrote:

> Whell, my windows users hardly know what "owner" means, so it may work for me
> 
> If it is no possible to lock the desktop...

It isn't strictly, but as you say, just revoking write permissions on the
Desktop/ folder and setting firefox not to save there would probably do it.

They're not not doing it to annoy you, they're doing it because that's the
firefox default.  It's probably sufficient to just change firefox's default
saving location to /tmp.

> what about a cron script such that it cleans the desktop directory every
> day?

That should work too alright.

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

I doubt you need to be that complicated but you could if you find it's
necessary.

Of course, the design of Edubuntu is that you should use accounts for each
user.  I can appreciate that may be difficult to arrange but if at all
possible, that's the way things will work best.

Gavin