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On 19/04/2015 22:57, bad apple wrote: > On 19/04/15 22:05, Eion MacDonald wrote: >> Dear folk, >> 20150419 Advice on USB Key live drive, please >> >> I have set up a Live Linux Mint USB key for someone to use to operate a >> hand-me-down MS Windows 7 (illegal OS upgrade) computer for his email >> and web browsing. >> >> Fine with persistence set albeit small memory size. >> However if I add a separate user name say "Blogs" with password, this >> would I believe, allow him alone to access that user and his private >> email inside Blogs, as opposed to him and world using machine on Live >> linux to browse. >> For many reasons , no dual booting set up used. >> Any help appreciated. >> > > You'll almost definitely want to encrypt the user Blogs' home partition > or just the entire stick - USB pendrives are easily lost or stolen. > > Easy guide here: > > http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/create-a-bootable-encrypted-usb-running-linux-mint-16 > > To answer your question directly, yes, you are correct - that is > basically the whole concept of "users" in an operating system. You > assign each person a set of resources and restrict access to them with a > password. It's perhaps worth pointing out that with a USB stick based > install, that authentication system is trivially bypassed by simply > plugging it into any other Linux computer which will immediately quite > happily automount your (presumably) LVM/ext4 filesystems. If that's a > worry, then encrypt (which is probably best practice anyway) but if it > seems like too much effort, don't bother. > > Hope that helps. > Thanks. Thank you for link, I am much obliged. I will discuss with him, to see what he wants. Basic just user+password or user+password on encrypted /home. He is not technically 'computer literate' albeit was and is an extremely skilled mechanical craftsman. PS It is not a USB stick based install , but a Live Linux user system. I will show him my own (handy as kept in base of sporran) encrypted Knoppix system on his as an example. -- regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq