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Hi Shawn -- Thanks for the options. I'm familiar with some of the ways to restore a desktop to its' original configuration at the next login -- I need a way (as in Deep Freeze) to *prevent* the user from changing icons or the desktop wallpaper during the session. We have a small contingent of YAs who love to play "shock the librarian" with their choice of (ahem) scenery ... To my knowledge this type of lockdown is a standard feature for most programs written to help manage public-use computers in a library setting. -- Darrell Shawn Boyette ☠ wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Darrell Eifert > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> a small >> program to set folder permissions may be able to lock down a Gnome or KDE >> desktop to prevent users from changing icons, menus, or wallpaper. >> > > Option 1: Why lockdown?. Simply make a snapshot of the desktop As You > Want It, and everytime someone logs in, overwrite the dotfiles with > the stock ones. Everyone gets the default desktop everytime they > login, no matter what. Unix is all text files; take advantage of it. > > Option 2: Why lockdown? If you have persistent user identifiers of any > sort, *stash* the user's desktop at logout and *restore* it at login. > If someone horks things beyond repair, log 'em out, nuke their config > set, and they get the default on next login. Everybody gets *their* > desktop, everytime they login, no matter what. Unix is all text files; > take advantage of it. > > -- ------------------------------------- Darrell Eifert Head of Adult Services Lane Memorial Library, Hampton NH "Beware the man of only one book" Old Latin proverb