Hi, The guest session works by launching the flexiserver. I believe this can only be launched by a logged in user, and that seems to be a design decision, from the README.Debian:
"Just call /usr/share/gdm/guest-session/guest-session-launch to start the session; this only works if you already have a gdm session, though, to avoid using a machine without authorization and no password." so it is security concerns that add this restriction. There would be two issues here, firstly the security issue of giving anyone access to the machine. Having an option to allow the guest session to be started directly from GDM would seem to be ok here, as the admin would have to enable it. If they do then it would presumably be for one of the shared machine situations described above, and so it would be what the admin wanted. The second issue is the technical one of whether the current guest session architecture allows the guest session to be launched without a logged in user. This I know less about. I believe it may be easier with the new GDM though, which will possibly be in 9.04. I don't think that this will be likely to be considered for Intrepid, but I still think it is a legitimate wish, and so I have confirmed the bug and marked it wishlist. Whether the bug should be fixed for Intrepid will be reviewed by someone more appropriate than myself. Thanks, James -- [Intrepid] "Guest" account should be accessible from login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs