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. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:14 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > [image: Visitor-ACCT.png]<http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16919&mode=view> > <----------Terminal permissions > > [image: Users-Groups1.png]<http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16920&mode=view> > <----------Users shown in Cinnamon > > [image: Users-Groups-Settings1.png]<http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=16921&mode=view> > <---------users, groups, etc. > > Note: when 'visitor' is clicked 'not shown above' there is nothing but > 'visitor' shown within 'Groups'. > > 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' > > The end goal is to ensure 'visitor' cannot access sudo or other sudoers or > users files whatsoever'. > > Any thoughts as far as how this may be setup improperly? > > Thank you, > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140421/2d9e1a86/attachment.html>