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Jan 14, 2010

I noticed (the hard way) that enabling a guest session under 9.04 does not lock the source user. I enabled a guest session for someone and came back to find them rooting through my files. By quitting the guest session, it goes back to the source user's desktop without requiring a password. Shouldnt it go to gnome-screensaver automatically? Can this be changed? Is it a bug?

to replicate: log into source user's account use the menu to start a guest session quit the guest session root through files un-opposed.

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[URL]

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Code:
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Code:
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