Package: lightdm Version: 1.32.0-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org Usertags: debian-edu Hi,For Debian Edu Guido Berhörster worked on a flaw in LightDM that made it impossible to divert the user's HOME directory via the PAM login process.
In Debian Edu, we ship a host / installation type called "Roaming Workstations". On these roaming workstations we modify the user's HOME directory /skole/<host>/home<X>/<user> (coming from an LDAP user object) to /home/<user>. This is done via libpam-mklocaluser. The overall idea is making notebooks/tablet usable outside of the school network, but initializing the usage process by initial login with LDAP user accounts.
GDM accepts this silently and proceeds with login while setting $HOME during login to the newly injected home (all of this is handled by libpam-mklocaluser). In LightDM, support for this has been missing so far.
Very recently, a patchset for this (contributed by Guido) had been accepted to LightDM upstream:
https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/commit/31d8ad5145679b810a912281af932f4d489e0132 https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/commit/2e1d7eb6080644928a22d992a4ff1f844334cf3d https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/commit/73673008c7010f4b4cf1964f57f49ee1865d74c2 Would it be possible include this patchset into the Debian package of lightdm? Thanks, Mike -- mike gabriel aka sunweaver (Debian Developer) mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4351) 486 14 27 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: sunweaver@debian.org, http://sunweavers.net
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