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Friends and family often need to use my desktop when they visit. I don't like people being able to get into my files or view my browser history...you know what I'm talking about. I like storing cookies and history though for my own convenience, so I'd hate to have to clear my browsing data every time someone else uses my computer. I run into the same problem with having kmail running and notifications being given that I have new mail. I don't want anyone else seeing who is emailing me. Moreover, when someone uses OOo on my computer I don't want to have to worry about my documents being changed or read.

What I would like is a quick way to initiate a Guest Session from the menu bar under sessions. This Guest session could be set for a certain amount of time or not. The guest user would have access to programs I choose and they couldn't save anything permanently or open any of my files without a password. Things like your browser would not show your bookmarks and history. OOo would not show recent docments, etc. Kmail would be turned off in the guest session. Things like printing would require a password. The whole session would be like a private browsing session where everything is deleted and forgotten after the guest is done.

Upon exit a password prompt would be required and take me back to my session.

I would like to have this happen very quickly without lots of clicks or passwords.

It should happen like this:

Click on the K-Menu (1st Click)

Click on Leave icon (2nd Click)

Select Guest Session (3rd Click)

Prompt appears with options for time limit, 30min, 60min, until exit. Choose time limit (4th Click) and the current session fades into the guest session.

To exit just go back to the menu and select leave guest session and a password prompt would appear to take you back to your session.

Make guest session configurable with a limited menu with only a favorites tab available so you can choose which programs the guest can access. Perhaps different levels of permission could be available to choose from in the time prompt. You could also setup a small logical partition for guests that can't interfere with your files.

Anyway, that is something I would really find useful and hopefully other people would too. It would be useful for sharing your computer quickly and worry-free. It would also be great if you have kids.

You can achieve this by creating a new user "Guest" and then

Click on the K-Menu (1st Click)

Click on Leave icon (2nd Click)

Click on Switch User (3rd Click)

Click on New Session (4th Click)

and log in as Guest.

After you log out from Guest session, you can resume back to your session.

For limiting time, you may download kchildlock from kde-apps.org and set the time limits for "Guest" user.

Please let me know if you had something else in mind.

chetankhona wrote:You can achieve this by creating a new user "Guest" and then

Click on the K-Menu (1st Click)

Click on Leave icon (2nd Click)

Click on Switch User (3rd Click)

Click on New Session (4th Click)

and log in as Guest.

After you log out from Guest session, you can resume back to your session.

For limiting time, you may download kchildlock from kde-apps.org and set the time limits for "Guest" user.

Please let me know if you had something else in
mind.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I guess I could just remove the K menu from the guest session and add the programs I want the guest to access in a desktop folder widget.

Hopefully that will work for me.

Marked as pre-existing.

Sorry,

need help?

Following the steps I can't switch to new session. Unfortunately, I can't find what I am doing wrong.
Fedora 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64.
KDE ?

It works and I can do it from Gnome. including F7, F8, ...

But I don't want to use Gnome, I want KDE.

Anybody helps?

Thanks.
Luceliofreitas.

luceliofreitas wrote:Sorry,

need help?

Following the steps I can't switch to new session. Unfortunately, I can't find what I am doing wrong.
Fedora 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64.
KDE ?

It works and I can do it from Gnome. including F7, F8, ...

But I don't want to use Gnome, I want KDE.

Anybody helps?

Thanks.
Luceliofreitas.

I use Kubuntu and it works there. I have not worked on fedora in last few years (last was Fedora 3!). But it should work same way.