Login to TTY as Guest?

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to log into a ttyN session (not the GUI) as a Guest?

As far as my observation goes the Guest session provided at login are served by lightdm which dynamically creates those guest accounts(correct me if I'm wrong) but how would that be done in a tty login because it requires a login and a password ?

Answer 1

To achieve what you want, I would suggest doing it the "old fashioned" way. Simply create a new user name GuestUser. Give them limited permissions, and you can optionally give them a password or not. If you want GuestUser to have no password, you will probably have to modify PAM authentication a bit to allow passwordless logins. Good luck :)