Guest Account, Local Only

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Fri Jan 25 15:37:42 UTC 2008


squareyes wrote:
> try  System menu > Administration > Users and Groups. Can add a new
> user/s there,
> with their own log in name and password. These don't have access to
> your home folder unless you specifically
> allow it.

That's not exactly true. With Ubuntu (Gutsy) the default permissions for 
the directories below /home is 755, i.e. world readable. Other 
distributions might have different default settings here.


Nils




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