Pessulus, Lockdown Editor, restrict/lock stuff on your Public Gnome Desktop

Managing pc's for public use can be a challenge as you don't want people to mess with system settings. Manually editing configuriguration files for restricting these access can be a big pain. But with pessulus editor you can easily freeze features that you don't want your users to have access to. For example, you wouldn't want people to log out, lock screen, edit panel shortcuts etc. It will lock some of the settings down for the onboard user so that your Desktop stays the way you like it. Well, you can do this using pessulus, a lockdown editor for GNOME desktops. This editor gives you the privilege to disable such features of your desktop.

This software is ofcourse not required for a single user desktop, but if your system is for public use, like coffee shops etc. then you might want to restrict some features for the user. This is where Pessulus, Lockdown editor comes into play.

Install Pessulus, LockDown editor on Ubuntu

Either click this link or just run this command in the terminal to install Pessulus.

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install pessulus

and ofcourse you can always use synaptic or software center to install it.

Once installed, you can find the launcher on System->Administration->Lockdown Editor. You can use it to disable a lot of stuff for the user onboard.