[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager

Mon Feb 20 17:06:21 CET 2012

2012/2/20 John Balcaen <mikala at mageia.org>:
+> 2012/2/20 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> [...].
+>>
+>> I agree that you don't want a package. But no problem with a checkbox
+>> somewhere which does the right thing (configuring, etc). I think the
+>> "System Settings" in GNOME allows you to easily setup a new account, so
+>> IMO, functionality is not needed..
+> In fact xguest is (well was) more thant a simply new account and has
+> (had) at least 2 nice functionnalities:
+> - the shell is restricted
+> - the user home was on tmpfs clean on every log out of xguest user.
+>
+> The last functionnality was especially useful for debugging purpose
+> because it was easy to test the « default mageia» setup.
+> Somehow this functionnality was broken during the mga2 developement so
+> now xguest account is just a restricted shell.
+
+Oh! I did not notice that (did not use it lately). This temporary user
+home was the top reason for having xguest at all! If this
+functionality is gone I don't see any reason for xguest.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+