[Tech] Introductions

[Peery, Owen]

I logged I to my email on a machine and copied and pasted it and it worked,
so I'll do the other 2 machines next week

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 5:01 PM Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>>>
>> --
>> -
>>
> --
-- "Harness Collective Intelligence" --

Owen Peery
K-5 Computer Science Teacher
Alamo Elementary School
250 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121
@owenpeery on Twitter #CSinSF
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