On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:53:03PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * ScruLoose (scruloose+debuser@eastlink.ca) [030602 21:42]: > > > > I'm wondering whether there's any 'standard' way to set up a guest > > account on my machine. It would be mostly used for friends coming over > > and wanting to check Hotmail in Mozilla, and such. > > If your friends really are your friends[1] -- that is, you're not too > worried about security -- there are many easy ways of doing this. You > could even just allow them to use your own account. On a desktop > machine at home, I allow my own user account to log in to gdm without a > password, so my girlfriend can use my account without me trying to spell > out my password. Yeah... I have so far been just letting 'em use my own account. I have no fear of malicious activity, but I have given a fair amount of power to my own user account, and if somebody were to use a 'mv' or an 'rm' in the wrong place by accident, I could stand to lose a large-ish collection of anime... And we're not talking about highly savvy users here. > I use pam_listfile to specify that its sufficient for a username to be > in my /etc/gdmusers file to allow login sans password. The machine's > off right now, so I can't paste in the line, but if you want it, I can > do it tomorrow; just ask. I'd bet you could figure it out yourself if > you look at the linux pam system administrator's guide for pam_listfile > and the use of "sufficient". I'm sure I can just adapt this to a guest account and then start setting permissions manually... So I guess you're saying no, there's no handy pre-packaged way of setting up a guest account. ;-) > [1] friends don't let friends use hotmail, though... Well, I do make fun of them for it. One of these days I'll be enough of a sysadmin to just run my *own* webmail server (maybe toss in Bogofilter, too) and present it as an alternative... Thanks! -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | < > Please do not | Bwahahaha-- I mean, oops. < > reply off-list. | < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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