Disable Guest Access by default.
Bug #1568897 reported by
Nathan Hartley
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
"Guest Access" should be disabled by default. It is an unexpected "feature", on an otherwise secure system. Until a GUI option is added (https:/
I've found it only invites trouble. For me, trouble had the face of my children while I was at work. =) They found that they were able to use my laptop, without logging in.
Then on their PC they found that, while logged into their account, using the "Guest Access" bypassed the proxy settings setup in their Firefox profile.
Please consider defaulting both pre-logon and post-logon Guest Access to off.
affects: | gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → lightdm (Ubuntu) |
affects: | lightdm (Ubuntu) → unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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The guest session have been enabled by default since 10.04, and with that the feature got much more exposure than otherwise would have been the case. So I'd vote for keeping it enabled by default.
There is an easy to follow instruction how to disable the feature (and enable it again):
https:/ /help.ubuntu. com/stable/ ubuntu- help/shell- guest-session. html#disable
A GUI control (bug #886415) for disabling/enabling guest session will make it even easier for system owners to disable the feature. IMO an implementation of such a control would be reasonable trade off between different views here.