Per-user mandatory lockdown policies with dconf. Is it possible?

[José Félix Ontañon <fontanon emergya com>]

Hi, 

First, I don't know which is the right mailing list to post the following question. Otherwise, please tell me where to do.

Sorry for crossposting.

After following the instructions given by the official documentation, I managed to set system-wide mandatory settings with dconf, but I've serious doubt whether is possible to create a per-user schema of mandatory settings with dconf.

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/dconf/SystemAdministrators

So, the question: is it dconf prepared for configuring mandatory user-level lockdown policies? I mean, so once a setting is configured, the user wouldn't have the chance to modify it.

Below two examples of configuration used: (1) a successful conf. for locking down the desktop-background system-wide (no local user could be able to change it), and (2) an unsuccessful try of having different lockdown policies for two different users.

Any clarification would be welcomed.

Works! --- Example 1: locking down desktop-background system-wide ---

>>> /etc/dconf/profile/user

user-db:user

system-db:local

>>> /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks

/org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri

Then run dconf update and restart desktop session.

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Not working :( --- Example 2: locking down desktop-background to test1 user, locking down disable-log-out to test2 user ---

>>> /etc/dconf/profile/test1

user-db:user

system-db:test1

>>> /etc/dconf/profile/test2

user-db:user

system-db:test2

>>> /etc/dconf/db/test1.d/locks

/org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri

>>> /etc/dconf/db/test2.d/locks

/org/gnome/desktop/lockdown/disable-log-out

Then run dconf update, ensure test1 and test2 has defined the DCONF_PROFILE env variable with their username, and restart desktop session.

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