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I use a Ubuntu 14.04 PC. It has an admin and guest accounts. I am the admin of my PC and my sisters use the Guest account. They complained that they are unable to do some things in the Guest account. I will tell it -

  1. They are unable to access the 'Volumes'. Is there any way to make them access the 'Volumes' ?
  2. Also the history is removed in Firefox in the Guest account after a system restart. Is it possible to keep the history forever ?
TomJ
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    What do you mean by volumes? – Oli May 28 '14 at 14:30
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    Why not add a regular user account for the sisters? Methinks it's going to be more suitable for regular users you share the PC with. – mikewhatever May 28 '14 at 14:41
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    All of a guest's files are deleted when they log out. If they want firefox settings to persist, they can set up firefox sync or, as @mikewhatever suggests, you can create ordinary accounts for them. – Mark Plotnick May 28 '14 at 14:43
  • The guest session also has an apparmor profile, so to allow some of the features you wish you would have to re-write the apparmor profile as well. the guest session is intended to be limited an temporary, +1 to creating an unique account for each user. – Panther May 28 '14 at 15:27
  • @mikewhatever Is it possible to create a regular user account with limited access ? This user shouldn't be able to delete files and add or copy new files. – TomJ May 28 '14 at 15:31
  • @bodhi.zazen How to re-write the apparmor profile...? – TomJ May 28 '14 at 16:45
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    Regular users can create, modify, and delete files in their home directory , but not outside of home or system files and this should be fine. For apparmor see - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor – Panther May 28 '14 at 16:58
  • @bodhi.zazen How to create a regular user ? – TomJ May 28 '14 at 17:45
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    @Tom Here you go: http://askubuntu.com/questions/156409/how-do-i-add-or-delete-user-accounts – mikewhatever May 28 '14 at 17:55
  • sudo adduser <username> – Panther May 28 '14 at 17:56

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