So here is the thing. I have a public computer used more or less as a public internet kiosk. As such I have enabled automatic login to the guest/kiosk account in case of a power failure or some other unforeseen problem that may force a reboot and no one is around with a password. I also have my personal account that I use as administrator to make sure everything is running well and up to date. Occasionally I have to reboot for an update or whatever and I was wondering if there was a way to override auto login and force the login screen to come up so I can choose my admin account rather than have it automatically login to the guest account where I have to ctrl>alt>del back to the login screen. Is there a keybinding I can use or set at boot to bypass the automatic login that one time? I do not want to disable auto login altogether as that would not be practical for this machine. It is more of an annoyance than a problem and I just wanted to know if this was possible and I was just ignorant to it and taking the long way around so to speak. I hope I have made myself clear what I am trying to do, if I can clarify in any way please let me know. Thanks

FYI: this is Ubuntu(Gnome) Hardy 8.04

You could set up sudo so that it is possible for the guest account to login as root if the guest knows the root password. Here is a discussion on how to do that:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...udo+login+root

That way you don't have to change the automatic login to guest. When you want to run as root boot normally and then change from guest to root.

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Steve Stites

Thanks for the tip and the link jailbait!