Posting files on users desktop over network

This is the situation:
I have 10 mac's, some with Tiger, some with Leopard, all in 1 network.
Every mac has 1 admin account (for me), and 1 or 2 other account for the people who work on that mac. So I can connect to every mac (over the network) and log in using the admin login.
My question:
Is there a way to post files on the users desktop, because I can access the entire HD with my admin account, but I cannot see into the users personal folders. I can only drop files in their drop box folder.
I hope someone knows a anwser to this!
Greetings

Do you have sudo access?
If you do have sudo access, then you could establish an ssh key using ssh-keygen, then propagate the $HOME/.ssh directory and its contents to all 10 systems.
Now you should be able to use scp to copy the files to each system.
Once all the files are copied, you can use ssh into each system, then use
*sudo mv copied.file ~username/Desktop*
*sudo chown username ~username/Desktop*

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