Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Removing Guest Session at login in Ubuntu 14.04


I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it works fine but I want to remove the guest account login.



Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:


sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf

Add the following line, save and then close.


allow-guest=false

Reboot, and you're set.



Edit


Thanks to Gunnar Hjalmarsson


Based on Gunnar Hjalmarsson comment "ubuntu-session was last updated in the middle of March. Try sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-session" when that is done, the Guest session returns.


After some research, this can be done a different way as well.


Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file from your terminal using the following command:


sudo -H gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

If the file exists, then just add the following line:


allow-guest=false

Otherwise copy and paste the following into it:


[SeatDefaults]
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-session=unity-greeter
allow-guest=false

Save the file and exit the editor. Reboot your system, and the changes will remain even after an update to ubuntu-session as mentioned by Gunnar Hjalmarsson's comment.


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