I did some searching online, and you may run into issues with a Guest user on vanilla Mint. If MDM ( the display manager used in Mint), then you can easily replace it with LightDM. I know for a fact LightDM has a Guest feature and it works reasonably well.
After that, all you need to do is disable the GRUB bootloader menu to avoid savvy users accessing recovery shells as root. Quick and dirty Kiosk Mode :-) On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > "Free Geek uses various temp users internally for their workstations. It > has been a while since I worked there, but they also had an OEM user, which > is > temporary for use when building the computers. > > I'm pretty sure that MDM, the display manager in Mint has a Guest mode, you > may want to look into turning that on, since it allows for temporary users. > This will result in any data getting saved by the user to be automatically > wiped when they log off." > > This sounds the most like what I'm hoping to be able to set up. Easy, > quick, simple and low maintenance. I plan to leave them with a snapshot > backup on a usb key that they can use to restore the system quickly & > easily if it gets trashed. > > I'll try this and if it doesn't work well I try ChomiumOS. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
