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<H1>[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager</H1>
<B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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<I>Mon Feb 20 17:12:41 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Olav Vitters skrev 20.2.2012 17:30:
><i> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
</I>>><i> In order to have a 'guest user', which usually means a passwordless
</I>>><i> user, you don't need any additional software, you just need to
</I>>><i> configure your computer. Hence my point than using a package to
</I>>><i> automatically performing those configuration changes doesn't make
</I>>><i> sense, and than either a plain documentation, or another fancy
</I>>><i> configuration wizard would work as well.
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</I>><i> I agree that you don't want a package. But no problem with a checkbox
</I>><i> somewhere which does the right thing (configuring, etc). I think the
</I>><i> "System Settings" in GNOME allows you to easily setup a new account, so
</I>><i> IMO, functionality is not needed..
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Actually the "nice" feature with the xguest package is that it restricts
the user to /home/xguest and that it is on a tmpfs, so
no crap gets left behind...
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Thomas
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