Just for the record: If you have guest accounts enabled on a mobile device, one may steal the device, and then log in as guest without rebooting. This someone will then have plenty of time digging for other exploids of software on the stolen device.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206924 Title: Make it possible to create a guest account Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in gdm: Fix Released Status in GNOME Shutdown: Fix Released Status in LTSP: Triaged Status in Xubuntu: New Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in kde-workspace package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in lxdm package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in sdm package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in slim package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in wdm package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in wing package in Ubuntu: Opinion 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/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
