*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 951000 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951000
this does appear to be a duplicate, thanks! but part of a larger series of
bugs affecting sane defaults for guest session, e.g., web browser "remember
password" prompts are unnecessary, prompts to backup the computer are
unnecessary and misleading, etc. there are a few others but they escape my
memory at the moment.
all these problems appear to stem from "guest account" using /etc/skel to
form a temporary "new user account," yes? whereas a guest account isn't
simply a temporary new account to be discarded on exit, it is a specialized
restricted account that should have certain settings completely disabled,
like screen lock and backup and automatic updates checking, etc.
while i like that guest accounts can be customized from the default using
/etc/skel/ i think there is another layer of customization that should be
off-limits as it would make no sense (e.g., enabling screen lock). i am
unfamiliar with the mechanics of current guest account creation, but maybe
someone could manually define the sane guest-session defaults, and then use
a script to derive any customizations that don't affect those sane defaults
from /etc/skel
thus, the system administrator would get their custom new user accounts,
but not at the expense of corrupting sane guest session defaults.
is this worth another bug report?
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com>
wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 951000 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951000
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 951000
> disable guest session screen lock using gsettings
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> Title:
> guest session user prompted for password on resume from suspend
>
> Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> In 12.04 with latest updates.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. start a guest session
> 2. allow the computer to suspend after timeout
> 3. resume the computer from suspend
> 4. a password prompt prevents guest (or any) user from resuming session
>
> As it stands, the user must press "switch user" at #4 above to go back
> to the login screen and may then re-enter the guest session from
> there.
>
> If the way that a guest session works is that it creates a temporary
> random password every time, that password should automatically be
> entered at step 4 above so the user never sees the password prompt,
>
> OR the guest session should always be created with "require my
> password when waking from suspend" unchecked.
>
> OR, computer should resume at login screen indicating that a guest
> user is already logged in (automatically run "switch user" command
> before suspend or after resume)?
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