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id="shell-guest-session">
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<link type="guide" xref="shell-overview#desktop" />
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<link type="guide" xref="shell-overview#desktop" group="#last"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage"/>
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<desc>Let a friend or colleague borrow your computer in a secure manner.</desc>
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<revision version="12.04" date="2012-03-22" status="outdated"/>
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<revision version="12.10" date="2012-09-25" status="final"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Gunnar Hjalmarsson</name>
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<email>ubuntu@gunnar.cc</email>
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<title>Temporary session with restricted privileges</title>
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<p>Once in a while a friend, family member, or colleague may want to borrow your computer.
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The Ubuntu <app>Guest Session</app> feature provides a convenient way, with a high level
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of security, to lend your computer to someone else. The feature is available to any regular
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user when logged in.</p>
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The Ubuntu <app>Guest Session</app> feature provides a convenient way,
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with a high level of security, to lend your computer to someone else. A guest session can
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be launched either from the login screen or from within a regular session. If you are currently
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logged in, click the icon at the far right of the <gui>menu bar</gui> and select <gui>Guest Session</gui>.
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This will lock the screen for your own session and start the guest session.</p>
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<p>To launch a guest session, click your name in the <gui>menu bar</gui>
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and select <gui>Guest Session</gui>. This will lock the screen for your own session and
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start the guest session. A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default
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<p>A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default
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any saved data or changed settings will be removed/reset at logout. It means that each
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session starts with a fresh environment, unaffected by what previous guests did.</p>
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<section id="customize">
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<title>Customization</title>
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<p>The <link href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizeGuestSession">
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Customize Guest Session</link> online tutorial explains how to customize
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the appearance and behavior.</p>
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<cite date="2012-01-14">jbicha</cite>
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<p>Create a new section and explain why someone might want to disable guest logins