Disable features for a specific user

Question

I want to disable all features on a specific user, on my Ubuntu 15.10. I want him to:

• Don't change the wallpaper

  • I followed this How to restrict users on changing their wallpapers? , but my ubuntu has no "gnome-appearence..."

  • I found this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2010824 , I'll try it now, let's see if this works. This works, every time the user logs, the wallpaper changes. I'll continue searching for some "chmod" solution.

  • I've chmod 700 unity-control-center. Now there's no settings for any users (only for root)

• Don't let then do anything on the computer, not saving files, not surfing on the directories, not executing any type of program (only the navigator)...

• Make the navigator automatically launch, with a specific home that cant be changed. Either dont let then navigate in other pages.

• Let a custom script (that has the usbip start + bind) execute every time the system loads.

I need to have access to all features in an admin account.

I've created a custom user, and with sudo nautilus I disabled access to all the / directory. The system crashed, so I only let him his /home/thenameoftheuser directory. It crashes too.

Answer 1

That's easy! It's called the guest session!

Just give that particular user a USB stick to save their files to and you've got picture-perfect isolation without any additional work!

If that's not restrictive enough, you can customise the guest session with all of your requirements...

;-)