Re: disabling the rhn applet without removing it

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 08:56, David Grierson wrote:
> Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:47 -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> > 
> >>Is there a way to prevent the RHN applet from showing up by default on
> >>the desktop without actually removing the whole rhn-applet package?
> >>What I want to do is to setup the desktop so that people who are plain
> >>end-users don't see it by default while the system administrators
> >>should have an option to add it to their gnome panel.
> >>
> >>
> >>-akop
> > 
> > 
> > On a per-user basis. Log in as the user, right click the icon and select
> > "exit". Then log out, this time selecting the "Save Current Setup"
> > button. I think that will work for you.
> 
> So if you've got a network of n-users (where n is a suitably large 
> number) all logging into RHEL desktops ... your work-around is for the 
> admin to login as each user?
> 
> Are you crazy?
> 
> This may be suitable if you've only got 5-10 users but if say you've got 
> 100's or 1000's?
> 
> Dg.

I never implied it would scale.

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