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<info>
<link type="guide" xref="user-settings#lockdown"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="dconf-lockdown" />
<revision pkgversion="3.30" date="2019-02-08" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Jana Svarova</name>
<email>jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
<years>2015</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2019</years>
</credit>
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<desc>Enable or disable some or all online accounts.</desc>
</info>
<title>Allow or disallow online accounts</title>
<p>The <app>GNOME Online Accounts</app> (GOA) are used for
integrating personal network accounts with the GNOME Desktop and applications.
The user can add their online accounts, such as Google, Facebook, Flickr,
ownCloud, and others using the <app>Online Accounts</app> application.</p>
<p>As a system administrator, you can:</p>
<list>
<item><p>enable all online accounts;</p></item>
<item><p>selectively enable a few online accounts;</p></item>
<item><p>disable all online accounts.</p></item>
</list>
<steps>
<title>Configure online accounts</title>
<item><p>Make sure that you have theĀ <sys>gnome-online-accounts</sys> package
installed on your system.</p>
</item>
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<item>
<p>Create the key file <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-goa</file> to provide
information for the <sys>local</sys> database containing the following
configuration.</p>
<list>
<item><p>To enable specific providers:</p>
<code>
[org/gnome/online-accounts]
whitelisted-providers= ['google', 'facebook']
</code>
<comment>
<cite date="2015-05-18">Kat</cite>
<p>Explain where these come from. For example, why "google" instead of
"Google"? Where can I find a full list?</p>
</comment>
</item>
<item><p>To disable all providers:</p>
<code>
[org/gnome/online-accounts]
whitelisted-providers= ['']
</code>
</item>
<item><p>To allow all available providers:</p>
<code>
[org/gnome/online-accounts]
whitelisted-providers= ['all']
</code>
<p>This is the default setting.</p></item>
</list>
</item>
<item>
<p>To prevent the user from overriding these settings, create the file
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/goa</file> with the following
content:</p>
<listing>
<title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.db/locks/goa</file></title>
<code>
# Lock the list of providers that are allowed to be loaded
/org/gnome/online-accounts/whitelisted-providers
</code>
</listing>
</item>
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