On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:43 +0200, André Wendt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lately, I came to realize that a guest account would be perfect for my
> laptop since friends use it at my place. Since Ubuntu's "Guest login
> specification" [1] is far from being implemented, I wondered what's the
> least painful way to set up a guest account under GNOME -- apart from the
> actual addition of a user?
Hi André,
The actual addition of a 'guest' user seems likely to be the best way,
really, but you might want to control what that guest account looked
like...
You could use pam_mkhomedir (included in the standard libpam-modules
package) to automatically create the account's directories on each
login. This will not remove them when the user logs out, but you could
do a cron job that removed them periodically or something like that.
There is also a pam_mount (in the libpam-mount package) which would
potentially let you mount a homedir using something like unionfs with a
shmfs over a standard guest home directory that would be read-only.
This would be unmounted on logout, so would be cleaned up at that time.
You could also provide a more permanent directory for your guests to
save things that they wanted a bit of persistence for.
Hope this is some help,
Andrew McMillan.
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