Hi,
This is the solution that we ended up using (the temporary guest session).
It is by far the easiest to implement, and is adequate for the homeless
shelter's needs. Thanks to all who replied to this thread!
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Brendan Perrine
wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:39
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:39:23 -0700
Mark Weisler wrote:
> gives no permissions to the guest user, something like...
Well technically the guest session can write files to /tmp that are temporary
but nothing that should persist from a reboot. This could be useful for say a
student that logs into t
On Sep 29, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am donating two Ubuntu 14.04 machines to a homeless shelter. The shelter
> would like to prevent the residents from writing any documents to the hard
> drive. The shelter wants to have residents download stuff to flash drives
e written to either.
>
> Just a thought - let folks know how all turns out.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:48:23 -0700
> From: Christian Einfeldt
> To: Ubuntu US California
> Subject: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Locking down Ubuntu 14.04 Unity
>
> H
I would just use the built-in guest session feature, and only create a
real account (or even just a root password) for the staff.
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-guest-session.html
"A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default any
saved data or changed s
Hi,
I am donating two Ubuntu 14.04 machines to a homeless shelter. The shelter
would like to prevent the residents from writing any documents to the hard
drive. The shelter wants to have residents download stuff to flash drives
they are giving the residents. Googling, I find nothing directly on
