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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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1582242/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
