Add another script hook, alike GDM's PostLogin hook
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Light Display Manager |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The problem with session-
Why I find that useful: I encrypt user's home directories (or, partitions) in a pure desktop environment. The passphrases differ from the users' passwords, so I can't use PAM. With GDM's PostLogin hook I could ask for the user's passphrase after they tried to log in, in a graphical environment. This is not possible with the session-
(Btw. when a user's $HOME does not exist, LightDM fails silently and returns to the login screen. IMHO the greeter should display an error message. It took me quite long to figure out why I can't use the session-
Changed in lightdm: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
I also have need of this function. GDM PostSession scripts are important for my installation.
Running mythtv, and sometimes the mythfrontend, audio or other component of the interface dies. When logging out of the GDM GUI interface I run scripts that kill all those related processes and then restore the related services automatically for a clean login everytime. I need this to work only for the GUI user, and the PostSession script worked great for that.