[K12OSN] Permissions question - shared folder

Nils Breunese nils at breun.nl
Thu Feb 14 12:44:47 UTC 2008


James P. Kinney III wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:19 +0100, Nils Breunese wrote:
>> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>>> Of course the gconf-edit is a **per-user** mess that will need to be
>>> scripted and pushed to everyone. Why gnome even thinks the
>>> "registry" is
>>> a good idea... At least it is a text file and not binary mess.
>>
>> You can right-click settings in the gconf editor and make them the
>> default for all users or even mandatory if you want.
>
> Hmm. That seems like a security mess if a non-admin/root user can  
> affect
> desktop settings for all users.

Of course only root can do that.

Nils Breunese.




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