[ubuntu-uk] Clearing home directory at logout

[Farran Lee]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 21:38 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear out the home directory on 
> Ubuntu when a user logs out?
> 
> Basically what I to achieve is have a script run to automatically when a 
> user logs out of their Gnome session so it resets everything back to the 
> default.  I've tried putting a couple of commands into .bash_logout to 
> see it that works but it doesn't seem to run on a Gnome session logout.  
> I just wondered if anyone knew how I could specify a script to run at 
> logout for specific users?
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 


i tried that once before - i basically made their home directory a
folder in the /tmp directory. That worked...
but then the new powermanager/user switcher-y thing instead of the
shutdown button has a "guest" session in it. Not sure how to access that
from gdm though...

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Farran Lee
I'm only 16 :P
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