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 myself. I had upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, gotten a problem I couldn't fix and was all to happy to wipe and rebuild my hard drive and return to 16.04. I can't be the only one who feels this way.
I want to restrict an application being opened under ordinary privileges. Only root shall run the application, so that contents wont be seen by others and they wont change anything.
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 helpful for public computers, e.g. in libraries, schools, universities, student campus etc. This would be workaround for user account deep freeze feature, which is still missing from Ubuntu.
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 time finding where this configuration files are placed in the filesystem.
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 Applications.
#!/bin/bash /usr/share/gdm/guest-session/guest-session-launch & /usr/bin/gnome-session-save --logout
The problem with this method, is that when you log in as 'ubuntu-guest', you have to start up two gnome sessions: one for 'ubuntu-guest' and one for the actual guest account.
Please let me know if you have any other better ideas. Thanks!