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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: lightdm/1.18
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: lightdm/1.18
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: lightdm/1.18
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: lightdm/1.18
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)

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

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Critical => High

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ Ubuntu phone development requires in session greeter functionality to perform suitably. This functionality does not exist in current versions of LightDM.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 1. Install a session that supports in session greeter
+ 2. Log into that session
+ 3. Activate greeter functionality
+ 
+ Expected result:
+ It works
+ 
+ Observed result:
+ The functionality is not implemented.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ Some risk of changing existing behaviour, reduced by regression tests still passing. Functionality is only enabled for sessions that opt-in to this behaviour so additional security risks is limited to new sessions.
+ 
+ Original description:
+ 
  We talked about this in person in Prague.
  
  Ideally a greeter could run as in the user's session and act as a
  lockscreen for the user as well as a way to authenticate/log-in as other
  users.
  
  This would let us avoid running a whole other session for the greeter on
  the phone, which is memory intensive.
  
  It might be easiest for unity8 if that API was still just liblightdm,
  just running in a special mode.  But I'm not picky on how it's done.
  
  There may be security questions around this.  I asked Jamie and Tyler
  about it, I'll post any concerns from them.

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Title:
  Support a user-session mode for authenticating

Status in Light Display Manager:
  Fix Committed
Status in Light Display Manager 1.18 series:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Ubuntu phone development requires in session greeter functionality to perform suitably. This functionality does not exist in current versions of LightDM.

  [Test Case]
  1. Install a session that supports in session greeter
  2. Log into that session
  3. Activate greeter functionality

  Expected result:
  It works

  Observed result:
  The functionality is not implemented.

  [Regression Potential]
  Some risk of changing existing behaviour, reduced by regression tests still passing. Functionality is only enabled for sessions that opt-in to this behaviour so additional security risks is limited to new sessions.

  Original description:

  We talked about this in person in Prague.

  Ideally a greeter could run as in the user's session and act as a
  lockscreen for the user as well as a way to authenticate/log-in as
  other users.

  This would let us avoid running a whole other session for the greeter
  on the phone, which is memory intensive.

  It might be easiest for unity8 if that API was still just liblightdm,
  just running in a special mode.  But I'm not picky on how it's done.

  There may be security questions around this.  I asked Jamie and Tyler
  about it, I'll post any concerns from them.

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