Well I think the following can help you out. 1) for having a guest account simply create a account with any name (probably guest) that will never ask for password at login so you don't have to tell the password to everyone (if u want that account to be for public use)
2) for resetting home directories of users, you should put all your files (which u want to be there in the home directory at every login) at some different place and write a small bash/perl script to place them in user's home directory at every login after deleting whatever was there in user's home directory. Do let me know whether this was useful or useless. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Kartik Singhal <kartiksing...@gmail.com>wrote: > We are setting up a lab in our computer center for encouraging students to > use linux. We are already done with setting up Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit on most > of the systems. What we have planned is to give a common underprivileged > 'user' account in all the systems with same password that we can tell the > users. Users have the advantage of using their flash drives which they were > not allowed to use on windows systems because of viruses. > > The problem of common storage is being taken into account by having a > central storage server running samba. It is available in the form of two > icons on the desktop: > 1. Public-Share-on-Ubuntu-Server (which is publicly accessible by everyone > and is permanently mounted on the client as a /etc/fstab entry) > 2. Access-Private-Share-on-Ubuntu-Server (which is private to a particular > user) > > The second icon is just a shortcut to the following script which allows > users to access their private files after requesting (only on first usage) > for a user name from one of the lab assistants: > > #!/bin/bash > > echo 'Enter your username: ' > > read un > > nautilus smb://192.168.5.82/$un/ > > > > What we need though is a method by which we can "reset" the 'user' > account's > home directory at each log in, deleting any traces of the previous user's > activity and recreates these two icons. I had created the script to > generate > the icons, it can just be integrated to the solution of this problem. > > Though the Guest account that does this is available on ubuntu but it is > only accessible when some other user is logged in and can't be accessed > from > the main login screen. > > The following was taken from ubuntuforums ( > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1024371) > > > Imagine the scenario: > > > > A library patron logs on to check his email, surf the web, then downloads > a > > photo from his camera and puts it in a document that he then saves to a > > thumb drive. He logs off and leaves. We don't want the next patron that > uses > > that machine to "see" any of the things previous users did, where they > went > > or documents they worked on. > > > > I don't mind the idea of a user account that has a password, we could > give > > that out when the patron signs in, heck we could even change it once in a > > while. However, lock down of the account and deletion of previous user > > activity is of most importance. > > > > Our requirement is similar. After a lot of searching on the net I have not > been able to find a way to do this. > > If you have done any similar lab scenario, please share the method on the > list. It would be a great help. > > > -- > Kartik Singhal > BTech CSE Student, NIT Calicut > http://www.techglider.com > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Martin Anderson _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
