Can I create a Guest user?

Gang,
I'd like to create a Guest user account on my machine (G5, Panther).
IIRC, in Classic there was a Guest user by default. I don't see that
here, and when I tried to create one using the name "Guest" it told me
that I could not use that name. Am I overlooking a default Guest
account?

BTW, I tried fast-switching even with just one account. It's neat. But
in my playing around with it, I put the system to sleep while it was at
the login window, and upon re-awakening, the system was froze. No
mouse, no force-quitting, only finding the power strip and powering
everything down...

_d

In article <askme->, Posterizer
<> wrote:

> Gang,
> I'd like to create a Guest user account on my machine (G5, Panther).
> IIRC, in Classic there was a Guest user by default. I don't see that
> here, and when I tried to create one using the name "Guest" it told me
> that I could not use that name. Am I overlooking a default Guest
> account?

You can use 'Guest' for the 'Name' field but not the short name, so use
something else for that such as 'anybody', and leave the password
blank.

Rob.

In article <061120032222040195%>,
"" <> wrote:

>
> You can use 'Guest' for the 'Name' field but not the short name, so use
> something else for that such as 'anybody', and leave the password
> blank.

Thanks (and thanks for the note about the password--I forgot to ask if I
could have a non-passworded account

_dennis

In article <askme->,
Posterizer <> wrote:

>BTW, I tried fast-switching even with just one account.

How did you do that with only one account ?

In article <matsw->,
Mats Weber <> wrote:

> In article <askme->,
> Posterizer <> wrote:
>
> >BTW, I tried fast-switching even with just one account.
>
> How did you do that with only one account ?

Maybe one could still select "Login screen" or whatever it is called,
from the "user menu" at top right and get to the login screen. Then if
the login is set to show a list of users, there would be the name of the
only user and the text "Logged in". The only fun I see in doing this
would be watching the cube animation

But if the screen is set to show just the username/password fields, it
would be harder to guess what to type in these than to "just" give the
password in the screen saver. This could prove additional security,
although I don´t think anyone would bother to get into someone else´s
machine by guessing passwords manually from the keyboard.

..lauri

In article <bofuok$kgh$>,
l <> wrote:

> In article <matsw->,
> Mats Weber <> wrote:
>
> > >
> > How did you do that with only one account ?
>
> Maybe one could still select "Login screen" or whatever it is called,
> from the "user menu" at top right and get to the login screen. Then if
> the login is set to show a list of users, there would be the name of the
> only user and the text "Logged in". The only fun I see in doing this
> would be watching the cube animation

That's exactly how I did it. And that's about all I got out of it
(except for the freeze after I put it to sleep and woke it back up on
that login screen--I'm afraid to try that again...)

_d