I'm having a problem with guest sessions in Ubuntu MATE; every time I tried to log in, it tells me that I can't access the .ICEauthority file (can't remember its location), boots me out, and creates a new account, named Guest. So not only can I not get into my guest account, but whenever I try, it creates a new account called Guest. I can't log in to them (password locked and I have no idea what it is) and they don't show up in Users and Groups. Does anybody know how to solve these?
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As regards the error message, I can reproduce it on Ubuntu MATE 20.10. This is the complete error message I see:
Could not update ICEauthority file /run/user/998/ICEauthority
However, if I close the dialog, it takes me to the guest session after a long (almost a minute) delay. That's apparently not normal and probably a MATE bug, and it would be good if you could report it.
As regards the Guest users in /etc/passwd etc. they are there because you didn't log out from the Guest Session properly. If you want to clean it up from previous failed attempts to enter a Guest Session, please see this Ask Ubuntu question:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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