Disable Guest Account from Ubuntu Linux 13.10 Login Screen

If you have not noticed, at the login screen of Ubuntu, anyone can select the “Guest Session” and login to your computer without password. Of course, the guest won’t be able to access your files and folders. What they will see is the default Ubuntu desktop and they won’t be able to store any file permanently as all saved files are deleted on reboot

In my this post i am going to show beginners how to disable the Guest session from Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy LightDM Login Screen.

Guest Session comes default in Ubuntu Unity, which anyone can log into from the login screen without password. You can easily remove it by the steps below:


Step-1: Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste below command and press enter:

#sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-unity-greeter.conf

Step-2: It opens the config file. now we need to do is add below line into the file and click save:

allow-guest=false

#sudo restart lightdm

Alternatively, we can restart the system.

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