[KLUG Members] gnome users in a one app prison

[Dirk Bartley]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 20:56, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > I would like to know how to put a user into a one or two application
> > prison in gnome.  I'd like to control these users desktops to have no
> > gnome-panel and only an icon or two to execute from the desktop.  Is
> > this possible?  They will be getting a desktop through ltsp.  
> 
> Does it have to be Gnome?  

No, does not have to.  I was attempting to make this easier by not
installing another window manager on this machine.

> I think it'd be easier to do with something
> like fvwm.
> 
> > I will be
> > on the same machine and would prefer to not be in the jail.
> 
> Does the terminal have a xdm/gdm/kdm/... login screen?

gdm

> If so, you can force your users to one window manager (fvwm?)
> and allow yourself to select other WM's.

I could attempt to do so.  Do you think this would be the easiest way.

> 
> Or you can have your own ~/.fvwmrc config file, different than your
> users, giving you more applications you can run.
> 


> Or you can not give them a windows manager at all, which really 
> limits them!  (what I do on data collection terminals)

I could look at the possibility of doing so through ltsp.  Just never
done it before.

Dirk
> 
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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com