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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <886490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-11-05 12:04, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Does that "tutorial" still aply? Seems to be almost a year old.

It is, but I updated it a couple of days ago with a tarball aimed at
11.10 and LightDM.

> Seems as if these guest session functionality had been
> moved into lightdm itself somewhere in the beta state of 11.10.

Right.

> There is not even a /etc/guest-session on my machines.

It's created if you install that tarball.

> Now it seems to setup the guest account through
> /usr/sbin/guest-account, which uses some files from /etc/guest-session,
> if they exist.

Precisely.

> It however allows only local settings, but not a different method of
> mounting the file system.

True, but I got the impression from your bug description that it's
customization possibilities you are after, and that changing the mount
method isn't an end in itself.

Why not install the tarball for LightDM and study its customization
ideas?

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Title:
  use aufs instead of tmpfs for guest account

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  lightdm creates a directory in /tmp and mounts a tmpfs over it as a
  home directory for guest users.

  I'd prefer it (at least as a configurable option) if it instead would
  mount /tmp/guest... over /home/guest via an aufs file system. That way
  the admin could provide some default contents, that are completely
  restored for every login, and it does not waste RAM.

  regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 1.0.5-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Nov  5 11:09:46 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-29 (6 days ago)

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