Farran Lee wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 21:38 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear out the home directory on >> Ubuntu when a user logs out? >> >> Basically what I to achieve is have a script run to automatically when a >> user logs out of their Gnome session so it resets everything back to the >> default. I've tried putting a couple of commands into .bash_logout to >> see it that works but it doesn't seem to run on a Gnome session logout. >> I just wondered if anyone knew how I could specify a script to run at >> logout for specific users? >> >> Ta, >> >> Rob >> >> > > > i tried that once before - i basically made their home directory a > folder in the /tmp directory. That worked... > but then the new powermanager/user switcher-y thing instead of the > shutdown button has a "guest" session in it. Not sure how to access that > from gdm though... > > =================================== > Farran Lee > I'm only 16 :P > > I thought the guest account did this, or can be set to, so I would assume if it does its a case of either:
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