[Tech] Introductions

[Christian Einfeldt]

I am betting that it is because you are trying to re-type it rather than
just cut and paste it into a terminal. I have tested it on the machine that
I took home (machine 13) and it works fine.  Did you take a test machine
with you?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 3:58 PM Peery, Owen <peeryo at sfusd.edu> wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting this script to work. I'm not sure if I'm
> putting in spaces, or no spaces, sometimes I get an error message,
> sometimes I get a message that does not look like an error message. I
> restart the machine, but no guest login appears. Perhaps when Christian
> comes out next week, we can try one together.
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 8:14 PM Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I wanted to update you all on the status of this project.  I have
>> been to Owen's school 2x, and we have started installing Lubuntu 18.04 on
>> the notebooks.  These notebooks are going to replace Microsoft Windows
>> desktops in a teacher's classroom.
>>
>> We also had a technical issue that I have solved, and I wanted to share
>> it with you.  Guest sessions are disabled by default in 18.04, maybe even
>> as early as 16.04, not sure.  At any rate, since we are installing 18.04,
>> we need to create a temporary guest session that wipes out all data created
>> during the session, as well as all config files.  14.04 came with this
>> feature enabled by default.  In 18.04, you have to enable it, as it is
>> disabled.  There is a simple one-liner script that you can use to enable it:
>>
>> sudo sh -c 'printf "[Seat:*]\nallow-guest=true\n"
>> >/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/40-enable-guest.conf'
>>
>> Here is the page that discusses it.
>>
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/915415/guest-session-stopped-working-on-ubuntu-versions-later-than-16-04
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your interest in this project!
>>
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