Best way to create Guest account in Linux?

Windows provides a Guest account with predetermined permissions to various things. Does Linux have an equivalent or do I just have to create a normal account and limit the permissions myself? This is what i have done in the past but if there is a better more recommended way I would like to use it. All I want this account to be able to do it to connect to my Wifi access point, be able to surf the web and maybe be able to save a file to the desktop. Thanks.

BTW - I am using Kubuntu 8.04

 

You could just make a normal account without sudoers access. That way, the only thing they can write on is their own /home directory. If you want this guest user (or anyone else for that matter) to not have any access to your own /home directory, do the following command (while logged in as yourself):

Code:

$ chmod -R go-rwx ~

That will remove read and write priviledges from anyone other than yourself. Remember, though, that root does not care about priviledges, so it is imperative that the Guest have no sudoer access. (I'm not very experienced with Ubuntu, but usually that means that the Guest should not be a member of the group wheel.)