Ubuntu :: Prevent Users To Change Desktop And Gnome Config?
Jun 15, 2010
I'm looking for a manner to prevent users from changing the desktop background/wallpaper and all other gnome configuration with booth Ubuntu and Kubuntu. This too (Abraxis, some years ago, have same my problem) [URL] do not solve the problem, for example if I change whit chown (*) own and group of this file to root /.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml, at the next reboot file return in the previous state. (I don't like Pessulus).
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chown root:root %gconf.xml
chmod 644 %gconf.xml
At the reboot file change automatically owner to "student", I don't know why?
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Dec 3, 2010
The title says it; I want to prevent users from viewing the wireless network password.
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Dec 17, 2010
I have a created a wireless connection from the main admin account and checked the box saying "Available to all users", everything is working correctly. I only need to prevent the Desktop Users from switching the connection to another one.
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Aug 22, 2010
I'm looking to customize the environment for new users by changing the items in the GNOME menu, change the panel layout, add some shortcuts, and do a few other things. I looked in /etc/skel and there doesn't seem to be anything GNOME related in there; I also tried to put .gconf, .gconfd and .gnome2 from my home directory into /etc/skel and that didn't do what I wanted.
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Jun 2, 2010
I would like to make LXDE the default desktop for ALL USERS on my LTSP clients. There are about 60 users so far.On my server, LXDE is default for everyone.But on the clients, each user has to change to LXDE individually. How can I make LXDE default on all clients?I've been looking through the forums all day, but could not find an answer to this question, so hopefully we can get an answer and my title will help others.
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Jul 10, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu Server 11.04 with OpenSSH, trying to create an ssh tunnel (for web traffic) to it from my (also Ubuntu) laptop. This is the command I'm using to create the tunnel:
Code: ssh -ND localhost:8080 george@192.168.1.20 I had it all working on a virtual machine.. which was deleted What settings/lines do I need to change/add from the default OpenSSH config files to get tunnelling to work? I've Googled and AllowTcpForwarding is set to yes, as is X11Forwarding.. but it still doesn't work. Chrome can connect to the server, but says the connection was closed before any data was sent.
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Jan 4, 2010
New install of FC12 and after logging into the KDE desktop then going back to Gnome, the Desktop Config File for KDE shows on the Gnome desktop. I ran gconf-editor and I can see the file but no option to not display in Nautilus. Is there an easy way to not display the file on the Gnome desktop without messing up the KDE config file?
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Dec 14, 2009
I am new to Debian and have a new install. How does one change the desktop from gnome to kde? Also, I would like to change the screen resolution, but under preferences > screen resolution, the settngs are blank, ie, no resolutions to choose from. This Debian install is from the latest net install iso.
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Jun 11, 2011
send me the information about how i change my desktop gnome to kde ?
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Mar 2, 2010
I am a simple man with a simple question. How do I change UNR interface to the regular GNOME desktop? IE. Which packages I have to install?
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May 10, 2011
I would like to change to the Gnome desktop is this possible and if so how?
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Jun 21, 2011
i recently installed OpenSuse 11.4 on VirtualBox into Windows Xp, i read some where that dvd version has both KDE and Gnome desktops, so my OpenSuse desktop is KDE now, How can i change Desktop manager to Gnome
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May 2, 2010
I just downloaded Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 and am running it from a usb flash drive on my Acer laptop.
At times I'd like to use the Gnome desktop. I know with the previous version there was a way to change to Gnome. Is there still a way to change to Gnome on the 10.04 version and if so how do I change to Gnome and back to Netbook Edition desktop?
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Aug 7, 2011
How to change desktop from GNOME to XFCE ?
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Jul 17, 2010
I use the following method for preventing the users from changing their passwords , is there any other method other than this ?
ls -l /usr/bin/passwd
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 37140 2010-01-26 12:09 /usr/bin/passwd
so we need to remove the suid for that command as follows :- chmod u-s /usr/bin/passwd now normal users won't be able to change their own passwords - and only the root user will be able to do it for them.
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Feb 23, 2010
how to change CentOS 5.3 GNOME Desktop to KDE without effecting others configuration?
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Jun 15, 2011
I am administrating a system with about 40 or 50 users, and we recently jumped ship from windows to ubuntu. Most of my users are getting along fine, but it seems every few days, i have to help someone who accidentally changed something, and now their account (or more rarely, the machine) is unusable, and has to be reset.
I know configuring /etc/sudoers is a huge step toward fixing my problem, but that still will not completely solve it. What I would like to do is prevent users from making ANY changes to the system (aside from their work files and the like), including themes, icons, desktop, background, etc.
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Jul 1, 2011
I have a box with about 30-40 users on it, and I need to prevent a certain group of users from using sudo at all. Is this even possible.
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Jan 15, 2011
I have recently played around with Mac4lin a program to change the interface to one that resembles a Mac computer. I did not like the settings then decided to uninstall the program. It reverted to a really ugly looking gnome desktop rather than my previous settings. One thing that I don't like is that I have a foot icon on my gnome traditional menu button on the panel rather than the green ball type icon I used to have. I know it's not the end of the world that my icons do not look like it previously did, everything else is running smoothly, though I'm just more annoyed than anything else.
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Jul 24, 2010
i would like to prevent all users other than the user "parker" on my system from using the su or sudo commands. I have not attempted to modify the sudoers file so it just contains the standard root ALL = (ALL) ALL.
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Dec 30, 2010
If there is a simple way to prevent accidental shutdown when the following situation occurs:
Sometimes, I log in on my father's computer to run some administrations' tasks (updates...). For that, I use SSH since I'm frequently far from my parents and what I want is to prevent a shutdown run by my father. Of course, he should be able to turn off by himself if nobody else is connected.
Molly-Guard allows to prevent distant shutdown, my request is a kind of complementary software.
Does anyone know a project which could fit with this request? Do you have simple ideas to write a short code I know bash, perl, python...
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Jul 17, 2010
I use the following method for preventing the users from changing their passwords , is there any other method other than this ?ls -l /usr/bin/passwd-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 37140 2010-01-26 12:09 /usr/bin/passwdso we need to remove the suid for that command as follows :- chmod u-s /usr/bin/passwdnow normal users won't be able to change their own passwords - and only the root user will be able to do it for them.
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Feb 4, 2010
How can I prevent users from changing their own password? I was surprisingly unsuccessfull in finding a solution for this on google. Lots of stuff about hardening ssh access or dealing with password aging using "chage" but nowhere could I find an answer for my question.
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Apr 21, 2011
Is it possible to have a user in Ubuntu/Debian that does not have access to synaptic, apt-get, dpkg and cannot even download anything from the Web, but has root privileges otherwise?
Original post (above translated by aimar) code...
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Jul 8, 2010
I have a box with multiple users on it and I want everyone to be able to have full access to their home folders, but not be able to see the contents of /home/ or another user's home folder (I.E. bob has full access to /home/bob but cannot access or even see the contents of /home/john)Right now users can see other user's home folders but can't modify what's inside. How do I prevent them from seeing the contents at all?
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Aug 6, 2011
What is the best way to prevent some user run some command? For example every body can run at and batch command and 3 or 4 special users prevent run these command?
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Dec 30, 2010
I've a Linux box with few users (with shell). I would like to prevent normal users see all the processes running on the box. How can I implement this?
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Dec 8, 2010
In Linux, how do i prevent users from executing chown, chgrp or chmod?
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Sep 30, 2010
'readonly HISTFILE'
but the user could tamper with the histfile itself. Like:
rm -f $HISTFILE;
rm -f $HISTFILE; mkdir $HISTFILE;
rm -f $HISTFILE; ln -s /dev/null $HISTFILE;
I'm experimenting with PROMPT_COMMAND to execute a command each time the user executes a command and so log it somewhere else.This post was pruned from the 2009 Is there a way to prevent users from changing or unset their HISTFILE variable? thread. Please do not resurrect old threads but instead create your own (and maybe provide a link to the old one).
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Aug 5, 2009
What config file do you change to change default run level???
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