Andrew McMillan schrieb: > 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.
Or, I could setup that module to use /tmp/$RANDOM as homedir which purges the directory more or less automagically... I didn't find any information how to use that module, could you please give me a link or something? I also found something called autodir which might be just what I am looking for. We'll see. Anyway, I was rather looking for a way to setup that account after adding the user. Is there anything else I should think about? (Apart from GNOME's lockdown manager...) Regards, André -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
