2012/2/20 John Balcaen <[email protected]>: > 2012/2/20 Olav Vitters <[email protected]>: > [...]. >> >> I agree that you don't want a package. But no problem with a checkbox >> somewhere which does the right thing (configuring, etc). I think the >> "System Settings" in GNOME allows you to easily setup a new account, so >> IMO, functionality is not needed.. > In fact xguest is (well was) more thant a simply new account and has > (had) at least 2 nice functionnalities: > - the shell is restricted > - the user home was on tmpfs clean on every log out of xguest user. > > The last functionnality was especially useful for debugging purpose > because it was easy to test the « default mageia» setup. > Somehow this functionnality was broken during the mga2 developement so > now xguest account is just a restricted shell.
Oh! I did not notice that (did not use it lately). This temporary user home was the top reason for having xguest at all! If this functionality is gone I don't see any reason for xguest. -- wobo
