Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (243 mails)

[Simon Wood <Simon.Wood@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Howells [SMTP:chrish@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Monday, December 03, 2001 1:25 PM
> To:	suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Hi all
> 
> May I ask what kind of work? What I'd really love is for somebody to make
> it possible to  restrict the things that are possible in KDE -- for example
> so that a school could use it on the desktop without the kids fiddling with
> all the settings.
> 
> I did notice however something that Waldo put on:
> 
> 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....

	Simon W.