Tool to create limited guest user accounts

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 14:34:20 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there some tool like the following:
>>>
>>> http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/09/how-to-create-a-limited-guest-user-account-in-ubuntu-linux.html
>>>
>>> to create guest user accounts with limited privileges?
>>
>> Take a look at the xguest package and/or Dan Walsh's RH Mag article:
>> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/07/02/writing-policy-for-confined-selinux-users/
>
> Thanks, Bruno. I am trying to install xguest, but I am getting the
> following errors:
>
> Running Transaction
> error: %pre(xguest-1.0.6-7.fc9.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping xguest-1.0.6-7.fc9

It seems that the problem is caused by the fact that I have SELinux
deactivated. Is there some other program similar to xguest that works
without SELinux?

Paul




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