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No warning for file saved during guest session

Asked by Pierre van Male

One of my niece inherited from an Ubuntu laptop, without having much idea of the OS. She also had no user password and therefore, started using it with guest session.

She soon contacted me because a file she had saved few days earlier had disappeared...

Once I figured out (via skype) that she was logged in as guest, I figure out where the problem came from, but it made me realized that Ubuntu should inform properly Guest user about the fact that modified and created files under the guest session are being deleted upon log off... They are precisely those who do not know about Ubuntu and ar etrying it.

Experiences as the one of my niece are not encouraging for new users...

I believe this is a serious bug, but before reporting it as such, I wanted to raise it here.

Thanks,
Pierre

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Please read this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/435930/comments/12

This bug has been around since 2009 (if I am not mistaken).

However, the bugreport

https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/435930

indicates that the package lightdm (1.9.6-0ubuntu1) solves this bug.

But the package lightdm (1.9.6-0ubuntu1) is only available in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) pre-release.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is not stable and not ready yet for production use.

Ubuntu 14.04 FINAL is not released yet.

Here is the description of the improvements:

  * debian/rules:
    - Warn users about the temporary nature of a guest session. (LP: #435930)

lightdm (1.9.6-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
      for each session.
    - Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
    - Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
      compiled.
    - Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
      doesn't exist - this is valid.
    - Fix log name for Mir display servers
    - Fix double removal of source IDs
  * debian/guest-account:
  * debian/guest-session-auto.sh:
  * debian/lightdm.install:
  * debian/rules:
    - Warn users about the temporary nature of a guest session. (LP: #435930)
  * debian/lightdm.install:
  * debian/lightdm.maintscript:
    - Move configuration from /etc to /usr/share so dpkg doesn't keep it around.
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:51:29 +1300

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