"Guest" account should be accessible from login screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Light Display Manager |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gdm-guest-session (Baltix) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I use a laptop, so my computer is usually off until somebody wants to use it. I think that the "Guest" account is a really good idea, but I currently have to login to my account in order to let someone use it (wait for it to login and then change the "user" through the user-switcher). Not only does this take a while with the person sitting there waiting, it makes it look as though you have something to hide! Added to that, I prefer to remove the user-switcher from the panel as it takes up space and I am the only user.
I think it would be great if there was a "Login as Guest" icon on the main login screen. That way, I could just give my laptop to someone (turned off), tell them to click the "Login as Guest" icon when it gets to it and leave them to it - it would make using a Guest account easier (which seems sensible) rather than an extra step.
Changed in gdm-guest-session: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- [Intrepid] "Guest" account should be accessible from login screen + "Guest" account should be accessible from login screen |
I agree. In high-school I work for we have user accounts shared between computers using NFS/NIS. All students and most of the teachers have individual accounts. Unfortunately there are also people without accounts occasionally using the computers, so a guest account is a must. Right now it's just a normal account named "guest", but since it's not temporary it collects tons of useless files and configuration, and since it's still shared over network two people are able to log in at the same time, and potentially corrupt programs configuration.
I thought Ubuntu 8.10 will solve all those problems, so I'm very disappointed to hear you won't be able to use this account from the login screen.