[LightDM] How to setup guest account

[Robert Ancell]

Hi Dominik,

A quick look a the logic in lightdm-gtk-greeter seems to indicate there is
a bug there. It will only allow manual login if the hide-users hint is set.
The correct behaviour should be to show guest logins too.

I suggest you file a bug [1].

--Robert

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter

On 10 October 2014 06:55, Dominik George <dominik.george at teckids.org> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> > For guest accounts to work you need to create a binary "guest-account"
> > which LightDM will run to create / destroy guest accounts. Due to the
> > distribution specific nature of this utility we don't include one by
> > default. The default Debian package does not provide one.
> >
> > I recommend you take the one we use in Ubuntu [1] and use that. That's
> > all that should be required.
>
> Thanks, I modified it a bit for our needs and it works great!
>
> However, I cannot get the LightDM GTK Greeter to show any option for
> guest login as long as I do not also enable the user list. For privacy
> reasons, I cannot leave the user list enabled in production.
>
> How do I login to the guest session without the user list being enabled?
>
> Cheers,
> Nik
>
> --
> Dominik George (Vorstandsvorsitzender, Pädagogischer Leiter)
> Teckids e.V. - Erkunden, Entdecken, Erfinden.
> https://www.teckids.org
>
>
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