Launchpad has imported 3 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40183.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-17T18:32:30+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote: It would be handy to be able to create temporary accounts using accounts service, useful for things like guest logins from a display manager. LightDM currently does this (with code modified from an Ubuntu patch to GDM) [1] [2]. The behaviour is basically: 1. Something requests a guest account 2. A new account is created with a random username guest-XXXXXX 3. Some OS dependant code is run to lock the account down 4. The username is returned 5. The account can be deleted using the username Are there any plans for this in accounts service? If not, I'll start working on a patch. [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/view/head:/src/guest-account.c [2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/lightdm/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/guest-account Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/comments/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-10-17T12:42:04+00:00 Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey Robert, if you want to work on something like this, that would be great. Some things to consider: - it is probably a good idea to have an IsGuestAccount? method on the user object, so we can eg. do the right thing in the user panel - should it be possible to turn a guest account into a 'real' account ? - probably needs to be possible to disable guest account creation Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/comments/14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-10-24T13:31:57+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote: The converting a guest account to a real account is an interesting idea - do you expect a user to "try before they buy" by logging in as a guest then opting in to convert to a full account (i.e. keeping their user data). I suspect this could get have some nasty side-effects. Agree with the other points. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/comments/15 ** Changed in: accountsservice Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: accountsservice Importance: Unknown => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206924 Title: Make it possible to create a guest account Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: Fix Released Status in GNOME Shutdown/Reboot/Suspend/Hibernate interface: Fix Released Status in Xubuntu: New Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “kde-workspace” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “ldm” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “lxdm” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “sdm” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “slim” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “wdm” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “wing” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “xdm” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Make a guest account that people can login to, and check their mail, surf web, etc. Every time the guest account logs out, its purged so the next user who login is a clean fresh account. This would be great in public terminals, libraries, hotels, lobbys, etc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
