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- Subject: Re: NW4Mac: Locking the Desktop?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.122917.16638@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:29:17 EST
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- >By default, if your users don't have access to the DESKTOP files, they can't
- >permanently modify the desktop. This is the default created by NW4Mac when
- >it's installed, so unless you have changed something, it shouldn't be a
- >problem. (I could be mistaken.) My experience has been that users can
- >change the desktop during a session, but when they log back in or re-mount
- >the volume, they will find it in the state last created by a
- >SUPERVISOR-equivalent user.
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- I think this is correct. It is my understanding that without write access
- to the desktop files, the OS treats the desktop files the same way it would on
- a locked floppy diskette... no directory changes, even window position changes
- will be saved.
-
- Alex
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