Guest session does not warn about temporary nature of files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Baltix |
New
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Undecided
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lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
Hi all,
this is not a bug per se, rather a request for a feature. One of the users I support has allowed someone to use his desktop using the "Guest Session", not realising that files saved during this session do not persist after logout. The person in question proceeded to do a good few hours work on the machine, saving files to the Guest Session desktop. They were of course extremely dismayed when they logged in again, only to find that their work has disappeared.
I think it would be a nice feature if, upon logging into the Guest Session, a splash screen appeared telling the user in no uncertain terms that any files they saved during the session would not persist after they logged out. I am a linux sysadmin and I was unaware of this property of the Guest Session and had to search online for an explanation for the behavior which, I'm sure you agree, is not ideal.
Thanks in advance,
Dan T.
Related branches
affects: | ubuntu → gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Wishlist → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
summary: |
- Guest session does not warn about temporary nature of files. + Guest session does not warn about temporary nature of files |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Shashank VRSN Sabniveesu (shashank16392) |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: saucy |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
Please see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1558808
In that tutorial I address the need to inform the guests in advance, but I also let them know that they actually can save files persistently. Whether people prefer to keep that latter opportunity 'secret' or not, I believe that the method described in the tutorial is close to an implementable solution to this bug.