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guest session should be available without logging to any user in advance

Asked by Jurgis Pralgauskis

NOW: A guest session (a password-less user account with restricted privileges) can be started from the GNOME's User Switching Applet

FEATURE:
imagine we want to have public pc-kiosk -- for people to come and check their email or so..
some people might have logins (LDAP or so) and others would be guests

how can a guest use computer if there is no registered user around?

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This question was originally filed as bug #301292.

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Felipe Venegas (fvenegas) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#2

This suggestion has already been proposed in Brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14466/

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Collin Stocks (collinstocks) said : 		#3

You could create a guest account with a password and then set it to automatically log in using the login window preferences manager.

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