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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="shell-overview#desktop"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage"/>

    <desc>Let a friend or colleague borrow your computer in a secure manner.</desc>
    <revision version="12.04" date="2012-03-22" status="outdated"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Gunnar Hjalmarsson</name>
      <email>ubuntu@gunnar.cc</email>
    </credit>
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<title>Launch a restricted guest session</title>

<section id="restricted">
<title>Temporary session with restricted privileges</title>

<p>Once in a while a friend, family member, or colleague may want to borrow your computer.
The Ubuntu <app>Guest Session</app> feature provides a convenient way, with a high level
of security, to lend your computer to someone else. The feature is available to any regular
user when logged in.</p>

<p>To launch a guest session, click your name in the <gui>menu bar</gui> 
and select <gui>Guest Session</gui>. This will lock the screen for your own session and
start the guest session. A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default
any saved data or changed settings will be removed/reset at logout. It means that each
session starts with a fresh environment, unaffected by what previous guests did.</p>

</section>

<comment>
<cite date="2012-01-14">jbicha</cite>
<p>Create a new section and explain why someone might want to disable guest logins
and how to disable it (there's a gsettings key for it). Perhaps we need a whole
article just for dconf-editor or we could just list the gsettings set and gsettings
reset terminal commands necessary for flipping this one setting.</p>
</comment>

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