Hi André,
sorry for the long delay in answering your question.
I did some tests as well, with the following results:
- The name of guest can be changed: it does not matter how you call the user in the configuration file. But the name does not make any difference in its usage.
- Guest users have to use the guest.jsp in order to "log in"
- you cannot set a password for the guest user
- you cannot move the guest user to another group in SOI, as the user is not available in EEM
The usage of the guest user (and the guest.jsp) is a direct passthrough into the system as a R/O-user.
Besides being a R/O-user there is no additional securtiy like a password.
The user will inherit all access rights the Operators R/O Group has defined.
Thus, by default this way into the system is not activated. Activating it means you have to be aware that everybody who knows about the guest.jsp can get into the system.
The real emergency user is samuser, for which you do have a password set.
Sorry, but I have no details about something similar in Spectrum.
MichaelBoehm