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Pizza67
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 Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: Disable users to change background and theme |
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Hi all.
I'm trying to find a way to inhibit a non-privileged user from changing the desktop background and the theme (icons, colors, etc.) in Gnome.
I tried:
| Code: | | chown -R root:root /home/<username>/.gnome2 |
but I've got an error when the user try to log into the system (cannot create the directory .gnome/accel - Permission denied).
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance,
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krinn
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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try | Code: |
chmod 770 /usr/bin/gnome-background-properties
chmod 770 /usr/bin/gnome-theme-manager
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nutbar21
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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There isn't some kind of admin option built in to disallow this?
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Pizza67
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| r3solve wrote: | | There isn't some kind of admin option built in to disallow this? |
Yes it is!
It's quite simple: just run gconf-editor, find the right key (i.e. /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename), right click on it and "Set as mandatory".
That's it: the user won't be able to change the desktop background!  |
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