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Old 11-11-2008, 09:06 PM   #1
Goda
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Restoring to default after logoff.


My mother works at a public library. She just acquired several EEE PCs for the teens to check out while at the library. She got the ones with Xandros loaded. At the library they use Deep Freeze on their Windows machines to keep people from damaging them. Other than Deep Freeze for Linux, is there a way to get similar results, either by a program or a script? Perhaps a limited permissions, temporary user? I don't have access to these machines(several states away) and I don't have experience with the distro either, so if anyone could come up with a really easy solution that my computer semi-literate mother could handle, that would be great. Thanks!

Last edited by Goda; 11-11-2008 at 09:08 PM. Reason: title wrong
 
Old 11-13-2008, 06:04 AM   #2
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I suppose you could change the X session to run this script:
Code:
rsync -rlpt --delete /etc/skel /home/user
chown -R user /home/user
Supposing /etc/skel exists in Xandros, and “user” is the default user.

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