{"id":148,"date":"2013-07-02T04:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=148"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:11:48","slug":"remove-guest-session-unity-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/remove-guest-session-unity-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Guest Session From Unity Login Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest1.png\" alt=\"Disable-guest1\" width=\"579\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest1.png 579w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest1-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you really need a guest session in your Ubuntu Unity login screen? In this tutorial I will show you how to remove it if you say no!<\/p>\n<p>Following steps work on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and higher.<\/p>\n<p>1.) Press <strong>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/strong> to open terminal window, copy and paste below command and run to edit the LightDM configuration file:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo gedit \/etc\/lightdm\/lightdm.conf<\/pre>\n<p><i>Replace <code>gedit<\/code> with <code>nano<\/code> if you don&#8217;t have the text editor, and, save by pressing Ctrl+S and then Ctrl+X.<\/p>\n<p>2.) Add this line to the end and save it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest.png\" alt=\"Disable-guest\" width=\"494\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest.png 494w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Disable-guest-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! To apply changes, run command below:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo restart lightdm<\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;ll bring you back to login screen, so backup current tasks first.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you really need a guest session in your Ubuntu Unity login screen? In this tutorial I will show you how to remove it if you say no! Following steps work on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and higher. 1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal window, copy and paste below command and run to edit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[192,279,27,17,16],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modify-ubuntu","category-unity","tag-how","tag-login","tag-remove-guest-session","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-12-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}