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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. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq