The GNOME System Administration Guide provides information to administrators on how to configure and manage different aspects of the desktop environment for users.
Lockdown is the mechanism which is used to bar users from performing certain actions (for instance, printing files or saving files to disk). The GNOME Desktop already has lockdown support in a few areas (especially the panel and the Epiphany web browser). This document aims to cover all the lockdown features found in GNOME, as well as act as a guide on how to preconfigure the desktop settings.
GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, a graphical login program.
See also: documentation on development version
Across the world, there are many large-to-small deployments of GNOME, with their specific needs, and system administrators to manage them. Here you will find information on tools and methods to work with many GNOME desktops.