LightDM - Jul 2014 - How to setup guest account

(please keep my address in replies as I am not subscribed to the list, 
thanks!)

Hi,

we are running a netboot environment with root on NFS with LightDM as display 
manager and XFCE as desktop, all on Debian sid.

That works great; however, I am all puzzled about how to set up the guest 
account. What I want is a guest account that sets up a complete user home in 
tmpfs (e.g. /tmp) on login and behaves just like a normal account from there 
on. I believe that LightDM supports that, but I have a few questions:

 - What is the name of the guest user?
 - Do I have to create the guest user as a system user first?

What I _believe_ is that I have to create a system user that is called - 
exactly - "guest", and write a guest-session script that does the user
home
setup. However, I do not find documentation about whether this is correct or 
not.

Any hints, please?

Cheers,
Nik

-- 
Dominik George (Vorstandsvorsitzender)
Teckids e.V. - Erkunden, Entdecken, Erfinden.
https://www.teckids.org
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Hi Dominik,

For guest accounts to work you need to create a binary "guest-account"
which LightDM will run to create / destroy guest accounts. Due to the
distribution specific nature of this utility we don't include one by
default. The default Debian package does not provide one.

I recommend you take the one we use in Ubuntu [1] and use that. That's all
that should be required.

In short, LightDM calls "guest-account add" to create a new guest
account.
The username is returned in stdout. LightDM calls "guest-account remove
<name>" to remove the account.

Thanks,
--Robert

[1]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/view/head:/debian/guest-account


On 1 July 2014 19:11, Dominik George <dominik.george at teckids.org>
wrote:
> (please keep my address in replies as I am not subscribed to the list,
> thanks!)
>
> Hi,
>
> we are running a netboot environment with root on NFS with LightDM as
> display
> manager and XFCE as desktop, all on Debian sid.
>
> That works great; however, I am all puzzled about how to set up the guest
> account. What I want is a guest account that sets up a complete user home
> in
> tmpfs (e.g. /tmp) on login and behaves just like a normal account from
> there
> on. I believe that LightDM supports that, but I have a few questions:
>
>  - What is the name of the guest user?
>  - Do I have to create the guest user as a system user first?
>
> What I _believe_ is that I have to create a system user that is called -
> exactly - "guest", and write a guest-session script that does the
user home
> setup. However, I do not find documentation about whether this is correct
> or
> not.
>
> Any hints, please?
>
> Cheers,
> Nik
>
> --
> Dominik George (Vorstandsvorsitzender)
> Teckids e.V. - Erkunden, Entdecken, Erfinden.
> https://www.teckids.org
> _______________________________________________
> LightDM mailing list
> LightDM at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm
>
>
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