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 to look at overall sane guest-session defaults, or is the issue that there *are* already sane defaults but they aren't being implemented correctly? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951000 Title: disable guest session screen lock using gsettings Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: bug # 275768 seems to be back in precise. My guest session is locking, when there is no password to unlock. I switched to the guest session from my admin account. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/951000/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
