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Hell, I want a guest mode on my computer. Instead I need to just have netbooks available for when company wants to check their email.
1. You are using an app
2. You activate 'Guest mode' using a button press, swipe, tap, etc. (configurable)
3. If the user hits the home button, it redirects to the lockscreen instead of the homescreen (much like the Camera application does in lock-mode)
4. Instead of the camera icon on the lockscreen when you double tap, it is the icon of the locked-in application. (You can tap it to resume use of the locked-in application)
5. To disable this guest mode, you simply unlock the device with your passcode.
So, when a friend asks "Hey can I check my email?", you can open Safari, enable this guest mode, and hand the phone to him, no worries.
What do you think?
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> Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted instantaneous user switching? That's a smidgen harder than the 40-year-old solutions :) These OS have been able to run multiple concurrent user sessions for 40 years, and fast user switching has been a feature of all desktop OS since Windows 9x went the way of the dodo. There are specific issues (core services of these systems are probably — sadly — coded with the idea that a single user i…
I thought that iOS and/or Android gave each App its own user account in order to sandbox permissions between apps, so that they can't overwrite each other's files. If all of the user data for an app is owned by that app's uid, then wouldn't this allow someone else running that app to somehow gain access to user data from another 'actual' user? E.g. App1 has uid 100 User1 has uid 101 User2 has uid 102 If all userdata…
Hell, I want a guest mode on my computer. Instead I need to just have netbooks available for when company wants to check their email.
What kind of computer do you have that doesn't have a guest mode? Windows, Mac/UNIX and Linux have all been multi-user either from the beginning or for decades.
Since I've already been perfectly demanding|whining about a feature I'd like to have, what I _really_ want is to just click a program that boots up a vm with the same OS, but only the browser ready to go with a fresh lack of cookies, history, etc.
IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK?
Hell, I want a guest mode on my computer. Instead I need to just have netbooks available for when company wants to check their email.
This is primarily a problem on my laptop which lumps to much diverse media together.
Hell, I want a guest mode on my computer. Instead I need to just have netbooks available for when company wants to check their email.
No kidding. I really need to dig into Windows 7 and find a way to restrict VLC's history. Browsing history is of course also risky. I suppose I could make a guest account, but I really just want a one click solution that authorizes basic web access for ten minutes. This is primarily a problem on my laptop which lumps to much diverse media together.
The use-case for it usually suggested is one VM for work, one for personal use, but it could be used for this scenario too.
Somewhat related: I've long wondered why ATM cards don't have something similar. 1234 is my regular PIN. 1235 is my help I'm being robbed PIN -- it dispenses the cash, calls the cops, and tags the video.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted instantaneous user switching? That's a smidgen harder than the 40-year-old solutions :) These OS have been able to run multiple concurrent user sessions for 40 years, and fast user switching has been a feature of all desktop OS since Windows 9x went the way of the dodo. There are specific issues (core services of these systems are probably — sadly — coded with the idea that a single user i…
I thought that iOS and/or Android gave each App its own user account in order to sandbox permissions between apps, so that they can't overwrite each other's files. If all of the user data for an app is owned by that app's uid, then wouldn't this allow someone else running that app to somehow gain access to user data from another 'actual' user? E.g. App1 has uid 100 User1 has uid 101 User2 has uid 102 If all userdata…
On Android, uids are used for apps, not for users. Supporting multiple users on Android is thus not as simple as one might think.