hpr4569 :: Kiosk with guest mode on Linux

Use GDM and either a ramdisk or systemd to create a guest profile with self-removing user data

Hosted by Klaatu on Thursday, 2026-02-05 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
useradd, gnome, systemd, fstab. 1.

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Comment #1 posted on 2026-01-18 17:33:34 by operat0r

weee

Can't think of any other files but other than the home folder you want to be cognizant of /tmp I just remember the old days of PHP having binaries running out tmp folders... I had a script that would go through every single virtual machine and search for binaries running out of weird places and it would find root kits all over the place!

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