Locking down Ubuntu

[Courtney Christensen]

I tried to unsubscribe from the Xubuntu list with their link like that and I
am still getting the digest.  I did finally get off of Ubuntu-Women.  But I
had to unsubscribe several times and wait a couple days for it to take
effect.  Maybe that is the problem she is having too?

-Courtney

On 7/17/07, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:11:15 +0200
> "Jeni Pritchard" <jenip6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I wish someone would be kind enough to tell me how the hell do you
> > unscribe from these damned lists!
> >
> > jeni
> >
> >
> > On 16/07/07, Freddie Ruddick <frederific at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:15 -0400, Adric Mitchell wrote:
> > > > Would anyone happen know a good way to lock down Ubuntu? I am
> > > > trying to achieve basically the same thing that products like
> > > > DeepFreeze and Clean Slate do. Thanks!
> > >
> > > If you make a new user account, of type "Unpriviledged", they can't
> > > fsck about with any system settings, outside of their home
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > You can also use pessulus (sudo apt-get install pessulus) to further
> > > lock things down. (Not allowing screen lock, stopping them moving
> > > panels around, saving to disk, printing, etc)
> > >
> > > I imagine that it'd be easy enough to write a script that clears any
> > > changes made to the user's home directory and settings on reboot.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Freddie
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> I think the above ----|   Pretty much covers it, no?!
> I'm just sayin'.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Chris
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