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    <B>John Balcaen</B> 
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    <I>Mon Feb 20 17:01:52 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/2/20 Olav Vitters &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">olav at vitters.nl</A>&gt;:
[...].
&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I agree that you don't want a package. But no problem with a checkbox
</I>&gt;<i> somewhere which does the right thing (configuring, etc). I think the
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;System Settings&quot; in GNOME allows you to easily setup a new account, so
</I>&gt;<i> IMO, functionality is not needed..
</I>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 &#171; default mageia&#187; setup.
Somehow this functionnality was broken during the mga2 developement so
now xguest account is just a restricted shell.

(Yeah i failed to open a proper bug report when i noticed it &amp; simply
mentionned it on irc :/)


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Balcaen John
Jabber-id: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net</A>
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