default users configuration

[Eric Tanguy]

I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each
student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have
another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but
also when i will create a new account.
Do you know if it is possible and how ?
I'm not sure to explain well what i need so ...
Thanks

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[Tim]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 09:19 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
>  I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that
> each
>  student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have
>  another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but
>  also when i will create a new account.
>  Do you know if it is possible and how ? 
When adding new users, a skeleton (/etc/skel/) directory is used to
populate the new user's directory with some standard directories and
files.  The adduser command allows you to specify a different one.  You
could make up student and teacher skeleton directories, and use the
adduser command, appropriately, to add new users.

Though, which gets the reduced menus?  The teachers who don't understand
the technology, or the students that exploit it too much?  ;-)

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[Eric Tanguy]

Le dimanche 30 octobre 2005 à 19:20 +1030, Tim a écrit :
>  On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 09:19 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
>  > I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each
>  > student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have
>  > another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but
>  > also when i will create a new account.
>  > Do you know if it is possible and how ?
>  
>  When adding new users, a skeleton (/etc/skel/) directory is used to
>  populate the new user's directory with some standard directories and
>  files.  The adduser command allows you to specify a different one.  You
>  could make up student and teacher skeleton directories, and use the
>  adduser command, appropriately, to add new users.
>  
>  Though, which gets the reduced menus?  The teachers who don't understand
>  the technology, or the students that exploit it too much?  ;-)
>  
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>   
Thanks for the answer, i think you speak about the adduser command line
because with system-config-users it's not possible but it's easier to
create a lot of users with the command line!
About the menu, i just want to manage it "better" with more specific
sections : maths, physics, ... and put the system for teachers and not
for students...
Eric

[Thomas Springer]

Am Sonntag, den 30.10.2005, 20:04 +0100 schrieb Eric Tanguy:

[snip]
>  About the menu, i just want to manage it "better" with more
> specific
>  sections : maths, physics, ... and put the system for teachers and not
>  for students...
>  Eric
>   
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/desktop-guide...

I don't know about a GUI or anything else that can accomplish your
wants+needs _easy_ and/or _fast_.


Thomas

[Tim]

Tim wrote:

>  When adding new users, a skeleton (/etc/skel/) directory is used to
>  populate the new user's directory with some standard directories and
>  files.  The adduser command allows you to specify a different one.
>  You could make up student and teacher skeleton directories, and use
>  the adduser command, appropriately, to add new users. 
Just to be clear, I'm suggesting that you preload the files used to make
the menus in the skeleton directories.

As far as *how* to do that particular thing, I can't really advise.
Though you could use a menu editing tool, like "smeg", look at the files
it creates, and use them as a template.

In your own homespace, it creates menu files in:
  ~/.local/share/applications/

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