Is it dangerous to have guest account on Fedora?

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Hi,

I use Fedora. I have my own account. I also have another account for family members. The account has a password, but the password is written on the laptop’s behind :slight_smile: Its because this is guest account. Its not sudoer user.

Is this dangerous if my laptop get stolen? If yes what can I do for better solution? Is there any trick you can give me.

Thank you

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Enable disk encryption. If the device is stolen, they wouldn’t be able to access the contents of the drive since it’ll ask for the key before anything becomes accessible.

Edit: you can always encrypt sensitive files if you dont want to encrypt the entire drive

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To answer your titular question as you’ve written it, no - it is not inherently dangerous.

But it is really bad OPSEC to have any password written down no matter the triviality of the account in question.

Please enable disk encryption but as I understand it, it’s best to set this up while setting up/installing your Linux distro itself. I am not sure of any drawbacks of doing this after the fact or if its even properly possible. Others can answer on this better.

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