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Use for questions that either involve creating or configuring a special, low-privilege guest account for which access data is shared under relaxed conditions, or for managing the pre-existing "Guest" account that many desktop-centric distributions provide off-the-shelf.

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I have a system to which some users need to connect trough regular SSH. I will name them the “Privileged Users”. In the same time this system should provide an SFTP server to “Anonymous” user (without ...
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I have removed the guest account from the command-line using the command sudo sh -c 'printf "[Seat:*]\nallow-guest=false\n" >/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-no-guest.conf' How can I restore the ...
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I'm self studying for my Linux+/LPIC-1 and I was working through the textbook titled "CompTIA Linux+ Guide to Linux certification" in conjunction with some video courses when this question arose. I ...
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I want a guest account just like in Ubuntu which has following features: It does not require password to login A new home folder (in /tmp if possible) is created with no data every time User data is ...
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I'm trying to create a guest account in arch linux that only allows the user to use simple applications like firefox. I do not want them to have access to programs like terminal or grub-customizer etc....
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I would like to set up a guest account on my Ubuntu so that anyone could log in (no password) and browse the Internet. But the guest user should not be able to modify desktop configuration (remove ...
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