Guest session / account
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Hi!,
i was wondering if any of you know or has enabled/configured a guest session/account under trisquel.
Is that even possible?
Thanks in advance.
Yes. In System Settings / Users and Groups you can create a new user account called e.g. "guest". Then (still in the Users and Groups settings) you can "Change..." the "Account type" to "Desktop user" and also "Change..." the "Password" setting to "Don't ask for password on login".
That should do it, but if there's anything I missed, or if you run into any problems, let us know. :)
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Pe 12.01.2014 13:11, sec a scris:
> Yes. In System Settings / Users and Groups you can create a new user
> account called e.g. "guest". Then (still in the Users and Groups
> settings) you can "Change..." the "Account type" to "Desktop user" and
> also "Change..." the "Password" setting to "Don't ask for password on
> login".
>
> That should do it, but if there's anything I missed, or if you run
> into any problems, let us know. :)
That is not a "guest" account, that is an account with limited
privileges called guest.
I also use another account for guests; I often create recursive
hardlinks from my music or documents so that I wouldn't have to switch
or have an awkward moment explaining to the guest whats up with the
accounts, in case the guest needs a file of mine or I have to show him a
file.
I'm guessing another way to have a guest account would be to set the
"guest" home in the /tmp directory so it would be deleted at reboot or
poweroff, but I haven't play with this yet.
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Home directory on /tmp that sounds more like it ;)
On some previous releases there was a package called guest-session that did all the work, but it got merged on LightDM IIRC.
Since trisquel won't install LightDM i think we won't have that feature available.
Thanks for your ideas ;)
After some testing i found that lightdm is available on trisquel, and it can be configured with the gnome-classic session.
So it fitted my needs, also letting me use the guest account feature, i was able to set it up then, the guest account on trisquel is available through LightDM.
Cheers
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