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Google Chrome and master passwords

Google Chrome and master passwords

Posted May 21, 2010 14:50 UTC (Fri) by ssam (guest, #46587)
Parent article: Google Chrome and master passwords

if you are letting someone have a quick browse on your computer you can give them a guest session.

on ubuntu this is very easy. click the session menu (the one with log out and shutdown), and choose guest session. it creates a guest user, with limited privileges (eg. they can only read a small white list of the filesystem), and logs them into an X session. when they log out it deletes their temporary home folder. it is pretty hard for them to do anything bad from it.

i guess other distros must have similar features.

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Google Chrome and master passwords

Posted May 28, 2010 20:36 UTC (Fri) by Russ.Dill@gmail.com (guest, #52805) [Link]

Yes, that in combination with the ~/Private provides a low impact solution. It should really be easier or more automated, but it is still pretty easy to utilize:

cp -a ~/.firefox ~/Private
rm -rf ~/.firefox
ln -s ~/Private ~/.firefox


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