Re: [funsec] Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and the Guest Account

2013-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
It appears the Guest account is still allowed to wander around a 'stock' install of Ubuntu. Below are some examples of information leakage due to the account. Surely I'm not the only person who thinks its a bad idea to allow LightDM (a desktop manager) be a user manager or security manager. And

[funsec] Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and the Guest Account

2012-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I know there's not much new here, but I am amazed that Ubuntu, Linux Mint and friends ship with a Guest account present and enabled. The Guest account is surreptitiously added through a lightdm configuration file, and is not part of the standard user database. Because its not part of the standard