[plug] Gnome static desktop for multiple users

[Leon Blackwell]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:41:41PM +0800, Scott Middleton wrote:
> Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
> I want set up say.... 200 user accounts.  I would really rather not log
> into 200 user accounts and configure each and every one.  I would like
> to set up 1 and then use it similar to the /etc/skel directory.

You could always use a post-account-setup script to copy and modify any
files that the normal skel system won't/can't handle.  Just use one or
two accounts to setup your default setup, and diff them to work out what
needs customising per user.

Once you have everything copied across, you should be able to make them
read-only, although I get the feeling that might break something.  If
you change the ownership of the files, they won't even be able to chmod
them back (though they might be able to delete and recreate them if
they're smart).

The last way is, of course, to modify their login script to copy the
.gnome* files across everytime they login, so it doesn't matter what
they mess with.



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