Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Andrew Kar <akar3d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 04:11, Jason Gerfen wrote:
> I am trying to find a good solution to keeping defaults for every user
> once they have authenticated against some services and had their home
> directory created.
>
> Examples:
> One desktop wallpaper for standard for all users
> All web browsers installed to default to one home page for all users
> etc. etc.
>
> I am familiar with /etc/skel/ but I am at a loss as to finding the
> defaults background configuration file which holds this information for
> each user.  Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Jason Gerfen
>
> "The charge that he had insulted Turkey's armed forces was dropped, but he
> still faces  the charge that he insulted "Turkishness", lawyers said." ~
> BBC News Article

You want Kiosk. It is on your Suse disks and allows you to choose and/or 
lockdown every part of the system so all users have a uniform system and can 
only have what changes or menu options you see fit.

andrew