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[Fred <882862@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin
> There might be scenarios where the current behaviour is expected, but
> as I said this sounds like a corner case.
Yes, there are cases where this behavior is semi-desired.

Example, I have a party at my house, and I want my guests to be able to change music and do stuff like check their Facebook.
So I login with the guest account, since I don't want my guests to use my account.
But in this scenario, I would like the guest account to have read-only access to /media/Music/ so that music can be played from the guest account.

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Title:
  Guest account can read/write in /media/

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The guest account can everything under /media/.
  Is the guest account really supposed to be able to access and read all the files on the host computer?

  If yes, then is the guest account really really supposed to be able to write to /media/ ?
  Shouldn't the guest be limited to his temporary home in /tmp/ ?

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