Ubuntu releases no longer have a Guest account
Further to comment #6, closing Papercuts task
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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Correct, the username has to be unique as you can potentially have more
than one guest account at once. The UI display name is set in the GECOS
field in /etc/password to "Guest". So a UI should be able to correctly
display an appropriate name for the guest account.
Note the screenshot shows nautil
Could we set up some sort of mechanism to provide UI-oriented display
name as well as a unique temporary username? I'm thinking some sort of
alias system for guest usernames, with these names stored in some kind
of lookup table.
** Also affects: lightdm
Importance: Undecided
Status: New