guest user with limited shell

[Markus Schönhaber]

Tony Asnicar:

> Are there any good shells for a "guest user" - I mean not to give him
> "/bin/bash" :S - or does someone know good howtos for limiting a shell?
> (like "disabling it", so that he can only log in to GUI and start a browser,
> etc..)

Depending on what exactly you are looking for, the guest session in
Gnome's logout menu (since Intrepid IIRC) might be worth a look. It
creates a guest account on the fly with a home directory on tmpfs and
spawns an additional X session for this user. After the guest logs out
the account and (almost) all files created are removed.

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Regards
  mks