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Ubuntu comes with a “Guest Session” account, which anyone can log into from the login screen – no password required. This guest account is locked down and changes to it don’t persist between sessions – everyone that logs in gets a fresh desktop.

Ubuntu comes with a “Guest Session” account, which anyone can log into from the login screen – no password required. This guest account is locked down and changes to it don’t persist between sessions – everyone that logs in gets a fresh desktop.

Ubuntu Wiki link: Guest Session Account

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How do I disable the guest session?

How do I disable the guest session in Ubuntu 11.10 or higher? I don't want people to be able to use my computer without using a password to log in!
Jeremy Bicha
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Removing Guest Session at login in Ubuntu 14.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it works fine but I want to remove the guest account login.
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How do I display the whole desktop in Virtual Box fullscreen mode?

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox 4.2.6 on a Windows 7 host. After installing Ubuntu I wanted to get the VB interface in fullscreen. I therefore installed guest additions from Virtual Box Manager (devices > install guest additions -> run -->…
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Guest session stopped working on Ubuntu versions later than 16.04

After a recent package update, the guest session feature is no longer available on Ubuntu 16.10 and 17.04. What happened?
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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How to enable guest sessions on Ubuntu 18.04 or later?

Is there any way you could revive Guest Sessions in a future LTS distro? Guest sessions are good security - they give me just enough power to do what I need to do on a daily basis without risking my system. In short, Guest sessions save me from…
Olliver K
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ZSH removed, cannot relogin

So I have install zsh and I didnt like it. so I did apt-get remove zsh From that point I cannot relogin, i click my user.. and then it just go back to the login screen. I can only login with the Guest session. I think the problem is caused because…
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Change default guest session launcher applications?

Is it possible to change the default applications that appear on the Launcher for guest sessions? For example: Remove : Amazon webapp, Ubuntu One, System Options Add : Stellarium (Ubuntu 12.04 and newer). Thank you for your time and answers.
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How do I change the guest session defaults

I have a quite tunned up gnome desktop and I would like for the guest session to share most of the user settings, this includes: Gtk and Metacity themes. Number of panels, placement and applets. Applications that run on login. I'm having a hard…
tutuca
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Allow a guest session wifi access with no users logged in

In 16.04 Ubuntu a guest session can't get wifi access unless a user is logged in. Is there any way around this nonsense? Note that in 14.04 it's automatically enabled, in upcoming 17.04 the guest needs to enter wifi password & create a keyring. So…
doug
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Login to tty as guest?

I was wondering if it is possible to log into a tty session (not the GUI) as a guest? As far as my observation goes the guest session provided at login are served by lightdm which dynamically creates those guest accounts (correct me if I'm wrong)…
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How to disable the guest account via the GUI?

Possible Duplicate: How do I disable the guest session? I know you can edit a configuration file to disable the guest account, but is there any option to do that via the Ubuntu 12.10's GUI? It's hard for me to believe that a simple on/off option…
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Custom session: Window does not capture full screen area by default. 12.04

I am trying to create a custom session by creating a custom.desktop file in /usr/share/xesessions folder. Remember this is not a gnome or some other session. I have created my own application for this session, which are simple. Case 1 Chrome…
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How to enable guest account automatic login?

I noticed in Ubuntu 11.10, that finally there is possible to log in with guest account already from log in screen. The last step is remaining - how to enable the guest account automatically log in, e.g. when computer starts? This would be very…
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Starting a guest session from the login screen

I was wondering what is the best way to start the guest session from the login screen (GDM). Currently, I created a new user called 'ubuntu-guest' (has to be something other than 'guest'). Then added the following script to the Startup…
Dariel Dato-on
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Why there are many guest accounts on my system?

After I saw this answer, I realized that there are many guest accounts on my system: grep guest…
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