FS#34343 - [lightdm] Lightdm's home directory should be persisted

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Christian Surlykke (surlykke) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 13:21 GMT
Last edited by Maxime Gauduin (Alucryd) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 21:40 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Maxime Gauduin (Alucryd)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: It would be nice if lightdm's home directory was persistent (i.e in /var/lib rather than /var/run).
When a user logs in, lightdm-gtk3-greeter writes that user and his/her session to a state file in ~lightdm/.cache/lightdm-gtk-greeter and uses that user and session as suggestion next time it is run.
When ~lightdm resides in /var/run this won't work across reboots.
lightdm-razor-greeter will have the same functionality in the upcoming version 0.6.

Additional info:

* Version 1:1.4.02

Steps to reproduce:

* With lightdm-gtk-greeter, login as someone.
* Logout (without restarting). Notice that the user last logged in is suggested.
* Restart the computer. Now there is no suggested user.
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Closed by  Maxime Gauduin (Alucryd)
Sunday, 17 March 2013, 21:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Maxime Gauduin (Alucryd) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 21:40 GMT
Thx for the suggestion, I've implemented it. Please note that you'll need to uninstall lightdm for the lightdm user to be deleted (make sure lightdm is not running while you do this), then install the new package. Or you could just modify the user yourself 'sudo usermod -d /var/lib/lightdm lightdm'.

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