Enable guest account on MX 19 or Debian

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asqwerth
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Re: Enable guest account on MX 19 or Debian

#11 Post by asqwerth »

Stevo wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:47 pm What's the difference between a "guest account" created with all that hassle and one for a user named "guest" that I can create in three seconds with MX User?
If you check his new additions to his first post, he is referring to the ability of the "guest" account to not save anything done within, so it's always vanilla when accessed again.
...when you launch a guest session, it will have the same preferences as you set for the user account. As you can see on the attachments, the only difference is that on the guest session, any changes done here will be deleted on logout or reboot.
That's probably the script at work, the one he extracted from the Ubuntu package. I have no idea if the same thing can be found in some separate package in Debian.

I've used this before long ago, when I had elementaryOS 12.04 on my old PC. It was enabled by default. But ultimately I chose to disable it by editing the lightdm.conf file. I didn't even know that this functionality supposedly doesn't even exist (even as a disabled option) in Debian.


Of course, using MX User, various group access and permissions are very easily enabled/disabled using checkboxes. No need for the usermod command he set out in his first post. But can the whole session and all changes be wiped upon logout or reboot in Debian without the need to import that whole script? Maybe just some commands are needed?

Hmm. That might be something to consider adding to MX User.
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Re: Enable guest account on MX 19 or Debian

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