[Gllug] Removing the Debian Menu in Gnome

[Simon Morris]

On 15/11/05, Henry Gilbert <henry.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. This is for a house full of students. I am trying to make it
> impossible for anyone to mess up the installation as an ordinary user.
> The Debian menu however has many things that may undo the work I've
> done. They won't know the administrator password; only the landlady -
> but she won't know what to do with it. I hope this works out.

Non-root users may some see system utilities installed in the Debian
menu but they can't open them without the root password (called by
gksu), so removing the menu doesn't automatically make the system more
secure. Maybe just a little tidier.

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