<div dir="ltr">Do not put the 'visitor' account in the administrator group. There is no reason to give a visitor account administrative access -- the whole point of a visitor account is to limit them to only the access they need.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:14 PM, paul g <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" target="_blank">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">I have been working on trying to learn how to properly setup a 'Visitor Account' on my laptop. Everything seem ok so far, I have a
couple screenshots 'shown below' to ask what you may think about this scenario so far.
Suggestions are certainly welcome.<br><br><div>
<dl><dt><a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16919&mode=view" target="_blank"><img src="http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16919&t=1" alt="Visitor-ACCT.png" title="Visitor-ACCT.png (58.81 KiB) Viewed 31 times"></a></dt>
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</div> <----------Terminal permissions<br><br><div>
<dl><dt><a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16920&mode=view" target="_blank"><img src="http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16920&t=1" alt="Users-Groups1.png" title="Users-Groups1.png (17.02 KiB) Viewed 31 times"></a></dt>
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</div> <----------Users shown in Cinnamon<br><br><div>
<dl><dt><a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16921&mode=view" target="_blank"><img src="http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16921&t=1" alt="Users-Groups-Settings1.png" title="Users-Groups-Settings1.png (31.82 KiB) Viewed 31 times"></a></dt>
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</div> <---------users, groups, etc.<br><br>Note: when 'visitor' is clicked 'not shown above' there is nothing but 'visitor' shown within 'Groups'.<br><br>Note: that I added
visitor to administrator group 'that should be correct right in order to
access visitor through admin? I can 'cd' into visitor as user 'paul. When I login to visitor from the splash screen and try to access 'paul' via terminal 'permission is denied'<br><br>The end goal is to ensure 'visitor' cannot access sudo or other sudoers or users files whatsoever'.<br>
<br>Any thoughts as far as how this may be setup improperly?<br><br>Thank you,<br> </div></div>
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