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litestep as default for all users? Thread last updated on 2006-10-16 22:21:53

Posted by member 256080 on 2006-10-13 04:07:02

Hi,

Is there a simple way to make litestep the default shell for all users?

Posted by member 1 on 2006-10-13 04:35:36 link

yes...RTFM

Posted by member 248213 on 2006-10-13 06:02:55 link

RTFM? I thought it was an option in the installer... I am sure it is.

There is a wiki ;)

Posted by member 256080 on 2006-10-15 23:58:12 link

I know that we can set it through registry for current user, which I guess can also be applied to HKEY_USERS, but apart from this, I failed to get any info from docs.

I'm using Omar's installer, and it didn't give an option to set as default for all.

Posted by member 212670 on 2006-10-16 00:07:56 link

I don't know the answer (I've never tried to find it), but it'd be pretty easy to just install Litestep under each account. How many are you running?

Posted by member 256080 on 2006-10-16 00:22:43 link

Hmm..., the users are network specific. Currently I have like 30 users. Every now and then new user is added, or old one deleted (resigned, etc). ;D

Posted by member 1 on 2006-10-16 04:53:41 link

uhmmm...if it works for HKLU...it works for HKLM. DUH! You make for a crappy admin if you don't know that. You could also make it part of the default login script, heaven forbid, and automate it.

Posted by member 256080 on 2006-10-16 07:09:35 link

What took you so long to figure? ;D I'm admin by demand, not by profession. So as much as possible I try not to touch registry. The only script I know is old DOS batch commands. Now you understand.

Back to topic, ok, I'll try changing registry. Thank you for the time all.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-10-16 09:04:33 link

You will also want to write a script to make sure users don't go back and change it to explorer.

Posted by member 31 on 2006-10-16 22:21:53 link

http://litestep.net/~jugg/shellctrl.zip
(run this as an admin)

you'll need to have .net 2.0 installed though. Untick the "Allow users to set their own shell" and set the "System default shell" to whatever you want. The "Current user shell" can be left blank, it'll be ignored.

Otherwise, the wiki actually does tell you what you need to know, failing that read the "release_notes.txt" from the lsdev 0.24.7 release.