Public bug reported:
lightdm creates guest users with adduser --system (or an equivalent), i.
e. creates system user IDs < 500. This is less likely to conflict with
LDAP etc. setups, but does cause issues like crash reports from the
guest session being reported as "system errors" by apport to admin
users. It might also cause some other unexpected permission issues where
a privilege is granted only to system, but not to human users.
I think we should change the call to create guest users in the uid >=
500 range, i. e. drop --system.
** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038881
Title:
Uses system user UID range for guest user
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
lightdm creates guest users with adduser --system (or an equivalent),
i. e. creates system user IDs < 500. This is less likely to conflict
with LDAP etc. setups, but does cause issues like crash reports from
the guest session being reported as "system errors" by apport to admin
users. It might also cause some other unexpected permission issues
where a privilege is granted only to system, but not to human users.
I think we should change the call to create guest users in the uid >=
500 range, i. e. drop --system.
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