Forgive me if I am missing something but I am attempting to setup a small business with FC1 and my buddy who is willing to try it out only wants his clients to access certain apps from the desktop and little to no chance of file/desktop alteration. Can someone help me and/or direct me to how I might say only have default /home/anyuser environments that gives them only logout options, internet, and messenger? I am just curious. I can't find it anywhere. Thx for any help.
Cory
On Thursday 15 July 2004 12:41 pm, corywynn@comcast.net wrote:
Forgive me if I am missing something but I am attempting to setup a small business with FC1 and my buddy who is willing to try it out only wants his clients to access certain apps from the desktop and little to no chance of file/desktop alteration. Can someone help me and/or direct me to how I might say only have default /home/anyuser environments that gives them only logout options, internet, and messenger? I am just curious. I can't find it anywhere. Thx for any help.
Put a default ".xsession" file in the /etc/skeleton directory (and chmod 750 it) that contains the list of apps that you want to run. For example, in your case, you could just put one app:
mozilla -width 800 -height 600 file:///home/$USER/close.html
And also put in /etc/skeleton/ a file called close.html... Then each user will ONLY get a browser, and that's it. In the "close.html", put something like:
<CENTER><B>To log out, hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE</B></CENER>
And that should do nicely..
For more info on using the .xsession control method, see here: http://www.jics.utk.edu/I2UNIX/xsession.html
I go over this in my the book:
Good luck..
Tweeks
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