Guest account option - feature request

Bug #1547127 reported by Wise Melon
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This bug affects 15 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu GNOME
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
gdm
New
Unknown
gdm3 (Baltix)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Though I didn't have it enabled for security reasons when I was using Unity, I think that some may find it useful to have a 'guest account' option, though I think that it should be off by default and be reasonably easy to configure in the gnome-control-center.

Tags: bionic focal
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Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

A report has already been filed upstream requesting this feature: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619526

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

There is no 'guest' session under GNOME, that is a Unity feature.

Tim Lunn (darkxst)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
tags: added: gnome-17.10
Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → artful
Changed in gdm:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
affects: gdm (Ubuntu) → gdm3 (Ubuntu)
tags: added: artful bionic
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Latest(?) news about the topic:

https://community.ubuntu.com/t/brain-dump-on-guest-session-progress/3717

Bug #1742912 may be considered related.

Changed in gdm:
status: Confirmed → Expired
tags: removed: artful gnome-17.10
Changed in gdm3 (Baltix):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: focal
Revision history for this message
Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :
Changed in gdm:
importance: Wishlist → Unknown
status: Expired → Unknown
Changed in gdm:
status: Unknown → New
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