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How to Disable or Enable Guest Session in Ubuntu 12.04
What is Guest Session:-The Ubuntu Guest Session feature provides a convenient way, with a high level of security, to lend your computer to someone else. A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default any saved data or changed settings will be removed/reset at logout. It means that each session starts with a fresh environment, unaffected by what previous guests did.
Want to disable the guest account from showing up on the logon screen? Ubuntu 12.04 comes with a guest account that can be used by guests to access the system. First open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and than type this command on the terminal sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf now give system password and press enter. You will get Text editor in that you will see this lines [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu now you add this line allow-guest=false at the bottom of the file like this [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu allow-guest=false now save the file and restart after restart you will see there is no Guest Session on the logon screen. Want to Enable Guest Session:- go to Terminal and type this command sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf after opening Text editor you will see this lines [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu allow-guest=false just remove allow-guest=false line on that file and save that file. Now restart the system, you will see Guest Session on the logon screen Enjoy! |
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