Public bug reported: lightdm creates guest users with adduser --system (or an equivalent), i. e. creates system user IDs < 500. This is less likely to conflict with LDAP etc. setups, but does cause issues like crash reports from the guest session being reported as "system errors" by apport to admin users. It might also cause some other unexpected permission issues where a privilege is granted only to system, but not to human users.
I think we should change the call to create guest users in the uid >= 500 range, i. e. drop --system. ** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038881 Title: Uses system user UID range for guest user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1038881/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs