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[Bug 1581853] Re: Source prefs.sh as privileged user to allow user mods

 

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.18.2-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.18.2-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Don't quit on SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 or SIGHUP (LP: #960157)
    - Use MIR_SERVER_HOST_SOCKET instead of MIR_SOCKET to report compositor
      socket to sessions. This used to work but no longer works in Mir 0.21
      (LP: #1583624)
    - Use only a single compositor on xlocal seats (LP: #1594229)
    - Fix Mir greeter log filename having "(null)" in the name (LP: #1590582)
    - Set XDMCP hostname field in to system hostname or configured value
      (LP: #1578442)
    - Improve XDMCP IPv6 address selection (LP: #1575200)
    - Allow fcitx and mozc to run in guest session (LP: #1509829)
    - Fix uninitialized memory errors
  * debian/lightdm.dirs:
    - Ensure user configuration directories /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d and
      /etc/guest-session exist
  * debian/guest-account.sh:
  * debian/guest-session-setup.sh:
    - Source prefs.sh as privileged user to allow user modification
      (LP: #1581853)

 -- Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Tue, 21 Jun 2016
12:49:01 +1200

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

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

Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lightdm source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact] including [Test Case]

  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.

  [Regression Potential]

  Low.

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