can still launch the menu editor in locked down mode

[shaggy]

For building a restricted desktop system you can lock the gnome-panel with this fancy gconf key: /apps/panel/global/locked_down true/false

In the gnome-panel, in the gnome-menu's kontext menu is the "Edit Menu" button, it should dissapear when /apps/panel/global/locked_down is set, but it doesnt.

Users are able to add menu-entrys again, which the administrator decided to remove. e.g. the terminal.

[shaggy (slimshaggy)]

workaround is:
sudo chown root:root /home/fakeuser/.config/menus
sudo chown root:root /home/fakeuser/.config/menus/*

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. This is a known upstream issue: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300832 - the "workaround" is nothing we could force on our users.

[shaggy (slimshaggy)]

The bug still exists in gutsy.

With a closer look at gnome's bug #300832 i can say that one is not related with this one.

Try on your own: Open a terminal. Then lock down the desktop with this command:
gconftool -t bool -s /apps/panel/global/locked_down "true"

Open the context menu of the applications-menü top-left on your gnome desktop, see that you are able to launch the menu editor.
This should never be possible in a locked down environment.

From my point of view this bug's importance is not "Low", since i can not create locked down "kiosk" systems.

[shaggy (slimshaggy)]

The bug still exists in hardy.

[Peter Matulis (petermatulis)]

The bug still exists in jaunty.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've changed the upstream bug to be http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499148 which reflects better the issue the users are having with this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.26.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-panel (1:2.26.3-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
  * debian/control.in:
    - typo fix
  * debian/patches/18_lockdown_lock_editor.patch:
    - change to have lockdown locking the menu editor (lp: #4712, #385596)
  * debian/patches/31_fix_crash_second_screen.patch:
    - the change is in the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:24:56 +0200