Cannot enable Guest account

Hi. I'm not sure why but whenever I select the "Allow guests to log into this computer" checkbox, the Guest Account never changes from "Disabled" and the checkbox selection does not remain after I reboot.
I recently had the login window crash which somehow caused my Mac to log into the Guest account. Afer it wouldn't shut down via the Apple menu, I had to force a reboot using the power button. It was after this reboot that the Guest account stopped working.
I suspect something became corrupted which is preventing the setting from persisting after a reboot but I don't know what it might be.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Anthony

After a bit of research, I deleted the file:
/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/Guest.plist
and after a reboot, I was able to reenable the guest account.
Cheers,
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