<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I've been more of a fan of using firefox profiles, instead of multiple system accounts.<br><br></div>Run `firefox -P` and create a profile called "bank", then:<br><br></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">$ mkdir -p .local/share/applications<br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">$ cat > .local/share/applications/bank.desktop <<EOF<br>[Desktop Entry]<br>Encoding=UTF-8<br>Name=Bank<br>Comment=My Bank.com Account<br>Type=Application<br>
Terminal=false<br>Exec=firefox --class=bank --no-remote -P bank<br>Icon=firefox<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">EOF</span><br><br></div><div>That gives you a launcher icon called "Bank", and an entire browser customized to your bank. You can do things like set your homepage to <a href="https://bank.com">https://bank.com</a>, and remove the address bar so you don't accidently think it's your regular browser. Or install a unique personas theme to identify it. Whatever.<br>
<br></div><div>The neat thing is that this will show up in Unity, gnome-shell, or whatever DE you use as another "application". The really neat thing is that the "--class" bit makes Gnome-Shell (and probably Unity) understand it's not "firefox". So when you Alt-Tab through applications, it isn't grouped with your regular firefox windows. You might want to find a different icon for it, instead of "firefox". Best if you can get a nice png of your bank logo.<br>
<br>I do this with a lot of my regular web-apps (work time tracker, work issue tracker, vcentre web admin, etc). I do a similar setup with a "mutt.desktop" that runs a dedicated mutt terminal that isn't grouped with my regular terminals.<br>
</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Chris Frey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net" target="_blank">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 07:23:39PM -0500, unsolicited wrote:<br>
> Mind you, have to set up accounts, not always easy for users. Let alone,<br>
> on windows, people frequently don't have accounts at all. (Not even log<br>
> in automatically with a password of password.)<br>
<br>
</div>In linux, this is fairly easy for me. As root:<br>
<br>
# create the account<br>
useradd -m bank<br>
<br>
# set its password<br>
passwd bank<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> For Linux, multiple X sessions (Ctrl-Alt-F8, etc.) would also be<br>
> possible. This X for home, this X for wide area browsing, that one for<br>
> banking ...<br>
<br>
</div>And if you don't like that, you can ssh into the subaccounts:<br>
<br>
ssh -Y bank@localhost firefox<br>
<br>
Maybe not quite as secure, since you're sharing an X session, but<br>
probably quite good enough, for browser security.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
- Chris<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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