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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581853

Title:
  Source prefs.sh as privileged user to allow user mods

Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in lightdm source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The Ask Ubuntu question <http://askubuntu.com/q/771080> called my
  attention to a regression in 16.04 as regards the possibilities for
  the system owner to configure the guest account. Up to 15.10 you can
  put e.g. this line in /etc/guest-session/prefs.sh:

  adduser $USER somegroup

  But if you try that in 16.04, the guest session won't launch. The
  explanation is that after the reorganization of the guest session code
  in 16.04, prefs.sh is sourced by /usr/share/lightdm/guest-
  session/setup.sh, which is not run as root.

  The linked merge proposals restore the previous behavior by letting
  prefs.sh be sourced by /usr/sbin/guest-account again.

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