On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 17:42 +0530, Saurabh Jain (सौरभ जैन) wrote: > I run a diskless cluster where all clients boot from the same Fedora > installation. Is it safe to let multiple people login with the same > ID, and use Gnome and OO? They will be sharing the same user home > directory. Why do that? It sounds a recipe for disaster. Perhaps if you mention why it's too difficult to manage individual IDs per student, someone can suggest an easy way of handling that for you. > Also, is there a way to disable users from changing their Gnome and > other preferences? Most of my users are school children, using the > same login on multiple computers. When one kid changes the desktop > background on one terminal, the next time round, everyone's desktop > background changes. I want to prohibit such changes. That's just one reason why you have separate log-ins per user. Setting various configuration files as read-only, or owned by the root user and readable-only by other users, *might* be a way of handling that. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
