Bug 816259

If you type guest for username does it work?

Ray is there something here I need to do to get the account to show up, or is this frowned upon.

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The guest account appeared in GDM while I was running F18, but hasn't appeared since upgrading to F19.  If I put 'xguest' in the username field in GDM, it successfully logs in as the guest user.

Ray?

Any update on this? I am having the same issue in F19. I can login as xguest by clicking "Not listed?" and typing xguest but the "Guest" user does not appear in the user list of GDM.

Try this.

cat /dev/urandom | passwd xguest --stdin

Then see if the Guest account shows up?

I think we need to switch to this method.

xguest-1.0.10-30.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xguest-1.0.10-30.fc19

Setting a password on the guest user does indeed cause it to show up, thank you.

Package xguest-1.0.10-30.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xguest-1.0.10-30.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-15418/xguest-1.0.10-30.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

I tried the update and it did not work. Still no Guest displayed in user list and when choosing "Not listed..." and entering xguest I now receive a session error screen and xguest login fails.

I will see if I can get more specifics on the error and make certain reverting to the previous version still works.

The session error I am getting appears to be unrelated. I will have to investigate that further.

But the Guest user still does not show up on GDM. Looking at xguest password I see it is still set to * so I am guessing that whatever is in the xguest-1.0.10-30.fc19 isn't getting picked up correctly.

You need to reinstall the xguest package, or it will continue to use the xguest user account that the bad package installed.

I'll give that a try. However, can't the update take care of this?

Yes I guess I can do a trigger for it.

Fixed in xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19.

Larry are you on F19 now, to test this out?

(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #16)
> Larry are you on F19 now, to test this out?

Yes.

Fixed in xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19

I pulled down xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19 and tested it. It words fine. 

Not sure if the package's pre/post scripts should be writing to stdout. When performing the update I see output from yum:

Changing password for user xguest.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.


Should probably use:

head -1 /dev/urandom | passwd xguest --stdin >/dev/null

Actually, now that my guest session has been idle, I do see a major problem with this fix. If the guest account has a real password, the lock screen will activate and there isn't a way to unlock it.

Either a different solution is needed or the lock screen would need to be disabled for the xguest user. But I am guessing that would be coupling it to the desktop environment.

That is a different bug which is already open with pam.

So it seems that this issue already existed prior to your fix and I just hadn't noticed? I will go back and double check but if that is the case then this fix looks good. For reference, the pam bug you mention appears to be 969174 and is what I was seeing.

Right, I went looking for it and failed to find it, and then went onto other things.

Package xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-15418/xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

xguest-1.0.10-31.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.