pessulus: pessulus (GNOME Administrative Lockdown Configuration Editor) pessulus: pessulus: Pessulus is a lockdown editor for GNOME, written in python. Pessulus pessulus: enables administrators to set mandatory settings in GConf affecting pessulus: the configuration of the GNOME Desktop. The users can not change these pessulus: settings. Use of pessulus can be useful on computers that are open pessulus: to use by everyone, e.g. in an internet cafe or a classroom, or even pessulus: a home computer. pessulus: pessulus: pessulus: