No registry / No logs of activities

[35k4fL0wn3]

I want my Ubuntu installation to have zero traces of any activity carried out in past sessions, as if every new started session were the first one.

Will working with a Guest account with no writing permissions in the OS' drive partition achieve that?

If I do that, will I (using the Guest account) be able to save documents in a different partition/drive such as a USB (encrypted) stick, without traces of this ever having been done?

[Yannick Le Saint kyncani]

I want my Ubuntu installation to have zero traces of any activity carried out in past sessions, as if every new started session were the first one.

You could have an init script mount /home/guest as a tmpfs, that's what I do on a eeepc : when the sdhc for /home is no present, I create a /home/me directory as a tmpfs.

You could also set /var/log and /tmp as tmpfs filesystems.

[35k4fL0wn3]

You could have an init script mount /home/guest as a tmpfs, that's what I do on a eeepc : when the sdhc for /home is no present, I create a /home/me directory as a tmpfs.

You could also set /var/log and /tmp as tmpfs filesystems.

0.0 Forgive my ignorance, please care to enlighten me, I am a Windows user (I am going to install Linux for the first time). Links / references on how to do that? Restricted Guest account is not sufficient?

[Yannick Le Saint kyncani]

0.0 Forgive my ignorance, please care to enlighten me, I am a Windows user (I am going to install Linux for the first time). Links / references on how to do that? Restricted Guest account is not sufficient?

Hum, well, there are no restricted guest account in linux.

This may be easier :

- Open a terminal (accessories -> terminal i think)

- Edit the fstab : sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add this line :
none /home/guest tmpfs mode=0777 0 0

- This is insecure (everyone has some access to the guest account, but it's easier to setup).

- Now the guest account should start anew at every boot. Beware that all its files will be kept in ram though (except when you move them on the usb key).

May it help.

[daleus]

If you're saving to USB stick, why not use a Live CD, or customize one to have the packages you want.

Just a thought.