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snapshot guest user account in to a skeleton on ubuntu 16.04
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Version: 1.1.0 | |
| # Date: 19/03/2016 | |
| # Origin: http://cascaval.com | |
| # | |
| # UBUNTU 16.04 | |
| # Start a guest session and customize it as you like, then switch users to the main/admin user, and run this script. | |
| # The next time you login in to a "fresh" guest, the guest account will be setup from the skeleton. | |
| # 1) Find the current guest's home directory | |
| guestdir=`find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname 'guest-*'` | |
| if [ "$guestdir" == "" ]; then | |
| echo "The guest's home directory was not found. Is the guest logged in?" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| if [[ $(wc -l <<< "$guestdir") > 1 ]]; then | |
| echo "More than one guest's directory was found. No idea which one to use." | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| # 2) Create the guest-session directory if it doesn't exist | |
| if [ ! -d "/etc/guest-session/" ]; then | |
| mkdir /etc/guest-session | |
| fi | |
| # 3) Backup the current skel directory | |
| if [ -d "/etc/guest-session/skel/" ]; then | |
| suffix=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S) | |
| mv /etc/guest-session/skel /etc/guest-session/skel-$suffix | |
| fi | |
| # 4) Copy the directory to the skel directory | |
| cp -R "$guestdir/" /etc/guest-session/skel | |
| # 5) Change ownership and permissions of the skel directory | |
| chown -R root:root /etc/guest-session/skel | |
| chmod -R 0777 /etc/guest-session/skel | |
| exit 0 |
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