On 22/12/13 09:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in the > morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up with his > emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just freak out > when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't just lean over > and help.. I.T. = PANIC! > > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on which > there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then click > on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either (optimum > solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer him the chance > to sign in to his Gmail account. > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else.
1. Logout of your gmail account. 2. Wipe cookies (Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Privacy -> Remove individual cookies... -> Remove all cookies -> Close. (google "saves" your account login using cookies). 3. Login to his gmail account. (now the default google login for that browser is his). > I can sign > into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in > future sign into his account from my account. But I don't want that. > I want to sign straight into his account and leave it like that for > him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? Any ideas? > > I haven't got time before he leaves to wipe the HDD and start again. > > I shall multi-post this to the Debian, Surrey and Portsmouth lists, > because I am fairly desperate. It's the Saturday before Christmas > here. People on this longitude will be either in bed or out on the > town. > > Thanks, > Lisi > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52b61d56.3040...@gmail.com
