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 nautilus where it is using the account
username in the display. The nautilus in raring uses "Home" when showing
the home directory and this problem doesn't occur.
I'm going to close this because:
- It's unavoidable to be able to support multiple guest accounts without using
some sort of autogenerated naming scheme
- The UI has a better label for the account and should always use that.
** Changed in: lightdm
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: lightdm
Status: Invalid => Won't Fix
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
** Changed in: lightdm
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036764
Title:
Guest username is nasty
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
Confirmed
Status in Light Display Manager:
Won't Fix
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
When logging in to the guest account, the user is assigned the
username guest-hWf1ay. I am assuming that the latter half of that is
an auto-generated string.
This is rather ugly and I think it should be changed to something a
little more user-friendly, such as 'Guest'.
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