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should lightdm not invoke /usr/sbin/guest-account remove when the guest session terminates? just as it invokes /usr/sbin/guest-account add when the guest session starts? Arguements are: 1) Firstly, this would prevent the issue that at some point all user IDs are used up and the /etc/passwd...

Cheers Lord Boltar, that was good advice. My guest users in /etc/passwd can not be descriminated from regular users by the Id scheme. But awk still does the job (the first part of it) This gets me the IDs of all users which are of type Guest: gawk -F: '($5 =="Guest") { print $1 }' /etc/passwd...

When I executed sudo /usr/sbin/guest-account add it returns: It should in fact return the user ID, something like guest-xxxxxx I do see close to 900 guest user IDs in /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/passwd and so forth Turns out the number of guest IDs and groups is controlled by the file...

.Xauthority was owned by the user as it should be. After removing it, the system created a new one. login loop for guest session remains =(

Thanks for your response Chris, the article did not help me much (maybe my lack of understanding), it talks about the login loop for the regular user account. This is pretty much what I found everywhere else and what I referred to in my first post: these articles talk about wrong ownership of...

Hi, I'm facing a login loop for the guest session. After selecting the guest session, and hitting enter, system returns to the logon screen. Different to all other post I found, only the guest session is affected. Normal user login succeeds. Guest session worked for years in 18.04. (and prior)...