Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-08-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Mandriva comes up with a Xguest account by default. This guest user has similar permissions/access rights like any generic user. However, nothing is saved on the disk. Once the user logs out, whatever the contents has created is lost. Not sure if you want similar functionality for user. May be

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-08-01 Thread jeet7668 .
Hi Kartik, Its easy man : following can be a good solution : - make a script which will only execute if the current logged in user is guest and will clear the directories or whatever u want. then put its entry in /etc/bashrc, you need to make sure that script is executable by guest

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-08-01 Thread Rakesh Kumar
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Mandriva comes up with a Xguest account by default. This guest user has similar permissions/access rights like any generic user. However, nothing is saved on the disk. Once the user logs out, whatever the

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 24 Jul 2010, Kartik Singhal wrote: [snip] 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

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-25 Thread jeet7668 .
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

Re: [ilugd] [X-POST] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-25 Thread jeet7668 .
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

[ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-24 Thread Kartik Singhal
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

[ilugd] [X-POST] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-24 Thread Kartik Singhal
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

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-24 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Kartik Singhal writes: 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

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-24 Thread Kartik Singhal
Thanks Ashish for your response. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wahjava...@gmail.com wrote: Instead of putting up an SMB server, why not use an SFTP server and an NFS server ? NFS server for anonymous mounts. And SFTP for authenticated mounts. We need to be able to access

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-24 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [Your CCing the same mail to various lists in the name of X-Post sucks. It is rude when other lists permits only subscribers to post. So, for a little convenience of yours, you're pissing off those who are trying to help you. Please avoid this, this