Re: Locking down the User Interface

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr uni-bonn de>]

Mart van de Wege <wege34 zonnet nl> writes:

> The point Guillermo and D-man made is that with NFS-mounted
> /home partitions (or something similar), user settings could be
> customized *without* giving up a uniform user interface to all,
> because those users savvy enough to customize their own settings
> would *not* leave the workstation with their settings; as soon as
> they'd logged off, someone else logging on on the same machine
> would get *his* personal settings (for most users this would mean
> the deaults), because THEY ARE STORED ON THE NETWORK,
> NOT LOCALLY!!!

And who should give all those numerous people a personal account, do
you think? A kiosk style PC is just thought for an anonymous account
for people coming and going and maybe never coming back again -- it
would be wasting time and human ressources to do a 'adduser XYZ' for
everyone.

I think the original poster should setup a guest account and restore
the setting each time a user logs out via the gdm postsession scripts.

Greetings,
joachim