Re: lock down features

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:17, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> People implementing this should probably bear in mind that if the user
> is capable of getting an executable altered gconfd running, than this
> 'lock down' is somewhat a moot point.

	Why bother hacking gconf ? why not just patch the app itself to ignore
the 'locked down' advisory from the config system.

> Or am I missing something?

	It's not for security; it's so Sysadmins can stop clueless people doing
stuff on their machines[1].

	HTH,

		Michael.

[1] - and then flash their own machine with a different desktop
background (!) on it around, to make themselves feel good ;-)
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