Could we set up some sort of mechanism to provide UI-oriented display name as well as a unique temporary username? I'm thinking some sort of alias system for guest usernames, with these names stored in some kind of lookup table.
** Also affects: lightdm Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Milestone: quantal-11-misc => None -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036764 Title: Guest username is nasty Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Confirmed Status in Light Display Manager: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When logging in to the guest account, the user is assigned the username guest-hWf1ay. I am assuming that the latter half of that is an auto-generated string. This is rather ugly and I think it should be changed to something a little more user-friendly, such as 'Guest'. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1036764/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp