Re: [newbie] different user permissions for 'guest account' query
hi etharp, i'm not worried about guests having their own permanent storage, i just want to give them internet facilities if they visit andi i was worried that creating a new user with the same privileges as my normal user might be too risky given that i installed as 'security=low', i guess the question could be rephrased as 'what can an ordinary user do to the system in a low security setting that s/he can't do in a high security setting?', then i would try to disable those things that weren't internet related for the new user only bascule On Wednesday 19 September 2001 1:51 am, you wrote: the major diff. as I see it, is that the user guest will have it's own home directory and all the users guest will share the hard drive space and settings. if they each have their own account, each user will be assigned a secure space on the hard drive, just accessable by them and root, and they will have a choice about letting other users see their work and desktop, etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] different user permissions for 'guest account' query
i want to create a 'guest' account on my second box so that friends who visit can log on and benefit from my cable connection, because i am behind a firewall -snf7.2- i installed both my workstations as -security = low- i don't know how wise that was, therefore i suspect that the permissions on a user account created using 'adduser' will probably be the same as my user permissions and not what i should have in a 'guest' account, not that i distrust my friends, the opposite in fact, my friends would understand perfectly the need to have good security despite the persons involved. my question is (finally you cry!), what permissions should i pay attention to? there are a lot of users and groups on a typical machine, most of which aren't 'people' and the interelationship between then is confusing to me, i want to enable web access, im chat and downloading files so that my friends can put stuff they want onto a cd, am i worrying about nothing, is the fact that someone a 'user' and not root automatically protection enough? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
