24 Hours of Leopard: Guest user account

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Btw, I've noticed that referring to comments by numbers here often doesn't work well because those numbers seem sensitive to changing. For instance, Fritz's two posts refer to Zach's comment #7 though it really seems to be comment #12.

And when is this blog going to get comment previewing?

I like the sound of this. At my current job my desk has become the gathering place for anyone to check their e-mail, baseball scores, etc. and I don't mind that, except that my personal user account is set up with the idea that nobody uses my computer unsupervised, so all my passwords are automatic, etc. Logging into my spare account seemed like too much of a pain, but maybe if this process is more streamlined it would make me feel more comfortable to walk away while people are using my computer.

@7 Zach -- I believe the difference is that its more of a "virtual" account and that the account's prefs, etc get wiped when the user logs out. A dedicated guest account would retain prefs, etc between logins. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

@7 Zach -- I believe the difference is that its more of a "virtual" account and that the account's prefs, etc get wiped when the user logs out. A dedicated guest account would retain prefs, etc between logins. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Neat!

Just found a funny feature in leopard, While looking at windows computers on the network, all windows computers have a blue screen of death icons! Its hard to see it unless your in cover flow :P

What's so different between this feature and just creating an dedicated guest account on Tiger and giving the account permission to do nothing? I've had such an account on my machine for years.

Wow. That's actually a really cool feature!

The security implications for this make me very uneasy. You're trading better security on the workstation for the ability to track back if someone does something malicious on the net from your system.