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04-26-2012, 03:12 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2012
Posts: 15
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how to create a guest account
hello,
I am thinking of creating a guest account for peole at home to test my linux machine.
Is creating a user called guest is enough or did I need to do other things to the guest account. Thanks for any replies.
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04-26-2012, 03:45 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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I'd read up on hardening ....
Cheers,
Tink
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04-26-2012, 04:54 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2010
Location: Colorado
Distribution: OpenSUSE, CentOS
Posts: 5,573
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My advice would be to set up a chroot for the guest account so it has no access to anything on your "real" filesystem.
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04-26-2012, 09:11 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,892
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You might want to look at kiosk mode. This link will give you an idea of what that is: http://ze.phyr.us/kiosk-mode-in-linux |
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04-26-2012, 09:49 PM
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Registered: Apr 2002
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Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by frankbell
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We don't know whether he will have visitors, and he wants them to do.
Could be kids playing frozen bubble for all we know 
Last edited by Tinkster; 04-26-2012 at 09:50 PM.
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04-27-2012, 03:35 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2012
Posts: 15
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Thanks for the replies.
I decided to create user accounts for each family member instead of a guest account. I doubt they'll use it since they are windows users.
Last edited by Mike_P; 04-27-2012 at 03:40 PM.
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04-27-2012, 08:03 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,892
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinkster
We don't know whether he will have visitors, and he wants them to do.
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I agree. That's why I just threw it out there as something to be looked at. Was I in error? |
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