Enable Automatic Guest Login in Ubuntu 11.10 「Oneiric Ocelot」

Guest user account for people who do not have individual accounts, this account can do no harm to your computer because the user profile will reset once machine restarted. So if you are having any public machine which has internet connection and want to allow all of them to access the machine, that time you can allow them to login as guest. But they could see the list of account names; might be a chance to ask you to create account for them, it is better to login automatically with guest account. Here is the small tutorial about enabling guest auto login in Ubuntu 11.10.

Step 1: Open Terminal ( Dash Home  —–> Search for Terminal  or Ctrl + Alt + T)

Step 2: Edit the following file.

raj@geeksite~/$ sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Step 3: Add the following line at the bottom of the file.

allow-guest=true
autologin-guest=true
autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
autologin-user-timeout=0

Step 4: Reboot your machine.

raj@geeksite~/$ sudo reboot

That’s All. Now the Ubuntu will not show any login screen, it will automatically login with Guest Account.