On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:53:03PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * ScruLoose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [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!
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