Enable Guest Logins Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

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Regular non-Groovix Ubuntu 18.04 no longer offers guest logins by default. To enable guest logins:

apt install lightdm and be sure to choose lightdm as the default greeter

edit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-guest.conf to set allow-guest=true

and reboot

NOTE: CVE-2017-8900 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1663157