[Bug 206924] Re: Make it possible to create a guest account

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On 2011-08-17T18:32:30+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote:

It would be handy to be able to create temporary accounts using accounts
service, useful for things like guest logins from a display manager.

LightDM currently does this (with code modified from an Ubuntu patch to
GDM) [1] [2].  The behaviour is basically:

1. Something requests a guest account
2. A new account is created with a random username guest-XXXXXX
3. Some OS dependant code is run to lock the account down
4. The username is returned
5. The account can be deleted using the username

Are there any plans for this in accounts service?  If not, I'll start
working on a patch.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/view/head:/src/guest-account.c
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/lightdm/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/guest-account

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/comments/13

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On 2011-10-17T12:42:04+00:00 Matthias Clasen wrote:

Hey Robert,

if you want to work on something like this, that would be great.
Some things to consider:

- it is probably a good idea to have an IsGuestAccount? method on the
user object, so we can eg. do the right thing in the user panel

- should it be possible to turn a guest account into a 'real' account ?

- probably needs to be possible to disable guest account creation

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/comments/14

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On 2011-10-24T13:31:57+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote:

The converting a guest account to a real account is an interesting idea
- do you expect a user to "try before they buy" by logging in as a guest
then opting in to convert to a full account (i.e. keeping their user
data).  I suspect this could get have some nasty side-effects.

Agree with the other points.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/206924/comments/15


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