Jana Svarova jana.svarova@gmail.com 2015 Petr Kovar pknbe@volny.cz 2019 Prevent the user from logging out and from switching a user. Disable user logout and user switching

Preventing the user from logging out is useful for special kind of GNOME deployments (unmanned kiosks, public internet access terminals, and so on).

Users can evade the logout lockdown by switching to a different user. That is the reason why it is recommended to also disable user switching when configuring the system.

 Disable user logout and user switching

Create the key file /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-logout to provide information for the local database:

[org/gnome/desktop/lockdown] # Prevent the user from logging out disable-log-out=true # Prevent the user from user switching disable-user-switching=true

Override the user's setting and prevent the user from changing it in /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/lockdown:

# Lock user logout /org/gnome/desktop/lockdown/disable-log-out # Lock user switching /org/gnome/desktop/lockdown/disable-user-switching

Restart the system for the system-wide settings to take effect.