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["Chris Howells" <chrish@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Simon Wood <Simon.Wood@xxxxxxxxxx>

> > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.0-release-plan.html
> > 
> > about preventing users changing the wallpaper, and stuff.
> 	[Simon Wood]  
> 
> 	Can't this be done by sym-linking the appropriate parts of '.kde' to a
non writable master copy. I though I'd limit my users (my wife) in this
fashion but see told me not to....
> 
> 	You could also limit access to the config application. Ah the power of
the UID....

Yes, you could do. That would mean that changes wouldn't stick. Although it
could get very nasty when you think about all the permissions and ensuring
that it will all work in the end ;)

So, that's given me a good idea for a nice piece of software to write when
I've improved my KDE/Qt skills -- a nice policy editor application to make
this kind of thing easy :)

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