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Yes, today it seems to be possible. Thanks for giving me back the access to customize my account.

Excellent! Better than just dropping it, since that would break links out there.

I can't send PMs since that function is turned off on my account and I don't seem to have access to turn it on.

Anyway, for now I'll just add a note that the tutorial is deprecated together with a...

@coffeecat
Just wanted to let you know that I was able to log in to my old account, and that http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2202313 is now resolved. Guess you can delete my 1888628...

The tar guest-session-prefs-lightdm-0.12.tar.gz works fine on my 12.04. You may want to provide some more details about the nature of your problems.

Guests are denied access to /home by design (via AppArmor).

I think it's intentionally prevented via AppArmor.

$ grep /media /etc/apparmor.d/lightdm-guest-session
owner /media/ r,
owner /media/** rmwlixk, # we want access to USB sticks and the like...

No. "disable_app()" prevents automatic startup of applications that otherwise would have been automatically launched at startup. It does not prevent the user from launching those applications 'by...

Nice catch, Paul. I proposed that change of the source for lightdm in Ubuntu, and it was just approved. It means that next release will include such a trailing slash, so you may want to change...

You're welcome, and thank you.



I'm not aware of any documentation besides the source code. And that's not easy to grasp. :neutral:

Seems like I'm the one who missed things. :(

A working way to do what you want, without a need to redo it after each lightdm update, seems to be to create /etc/guest-session/prefs.sh and add these...

A disadvantage with editing a package file is that it needs to be redone after each upgrade. Probably better to create a symlink.


sudo ln -s /home/luser /etc/guest-session/skel

Great example, Paul. Thanks! I added a link to your post from the "Alternate approach" section in the tutorial.


Please note that as from Ubuntu 11.10, the guest session code is included in the...

Well, unless you want that setting by default also for newly created regular users, you'd better use /etc/guest-session/skel instead. See the Alternative approach section in the tutorial.


I for...

Yes, I think there is. I would suggest that you use /etc/guest-session/skel as described in the section Alternative approach in the first post of this thread. If you try it, please let us know if you...

Thanks! :) That solves it for me - for now.

I still think you should consider the idea to hide submitted profile info that cannot (easily) be changed due to the < 50 posts rule. Or - even better -...

Hi zorkerz!

I don't know what that means? Am I doing something wrong?[/QUOTE]

No, not at all. It means that the msgfmt program, which is currently needed to run the install.sh script, is not...

Hello,

I have been hit by the < 50 posts rule, since I have only posted 13 times so far. My main contribution in Ubuntu Forums is this tutorial, and since editing the first post there 'does not...

That's beyond the scope of gdm-guest-session and this tutorial.[/QUOTE]

Ubuntu 11.10 brought good news in this respect. It's shipped with a new default display manager, LightDM, which allows you...

That's beyond the scope of gdm-guest-session and this tutorial. I have seen attempts to modify gdm-guest-session to do what you ask for, but unfortunately I don't remember where...

In any case you...

You're welcome.


The idea with the guest-session feature is to provide a session with restricted privileges, so sudo wouldn't fit in very well, would it? Besides I don't understand why you would...

That question is off topic in this thread, I think. I suggest that you start a new thread, where your latest question is reflected in the title. To increase the chances to get help, you'd better...

Yep, the examples in /etc/guest-session/prefs.sh ought to cover what you were looking for. I'm glad that you found the examples useful, carret.

Hello,


I'm not able to reproduce that behavior. To me, music that was playing in a regular session keeps playing if I launch a guest session.


No. That is I have no idea.

I noticed that...

Thanks, glad to hear you say that. :) You're welcome.
Please feel free to post your comments, other customization ideas, etc.

When fixing the permissions issue, I made "lp" the group, and added write access to the group:

~$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/006
total 0
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 640 2010-10-11 23:09 001
crw-rw-r--...