Comment 5 for bug 290507

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:06:48PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Admittedly this is a very contrived argument. With the same logic, you
> could also forbid Alice to write _any_ file at all, or even better,
> disallow everyone to create file, since they might otherwise upload them
> to a public website or borrow their computer to other people.
>
> If you carelessly leave private stuff on other computers, this is an
> entirely social problem, I don't think that there's a good technical
> answer for this. Firefox even asks you whether it stores the password.
> No sane person would give their credit card to a random stranger on the
> street and then walk away. If people do the same with computers, then we
> have an education problem, not a guest session bug. :-)
>
> Alex, is it even possible to do that, such as providing some firefox
> default settings in guest's firefox profile? If that is too hard,
> nevermind.
>

If its somehow possible to determine that ffox is in guest session, it
would probably be possible to default firefox to "ask for removal of
private" data ...; making this dependent on some env variable would be
non-trivial though; if its possible to copy a default profile on guest
session initialization (or guest session user account setup) that
would probably work.

 - Alexander