Re: Guest Account, Local Only

Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:
I'm interested in setting up a guest account on my Ubuntu Gutsy
system for local use only. Meaning, friends could have a username
for one account to share, use all of the local devices, CDROM, floppy,
USB, etc. and Internet, but with one condition:

No access to the normal user's directories and above ~/home directories.

The normal user being the one with the password to do sudo commands.

Would there be a simple step-by-step how-to on performing this?
Would there be any disadvantages to doing this?

TIA



Hi,
try System menu > Administration > Users and Groups. Can add a new
user/s there,
with their own log in name and password. These don't have access to your
home folder unless you specifically
allow it.

Hope this is what you are after.
Take Care
Winton

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