MDM does not create a missing home directory

[SiKing]

In past versions of LM (before the switch to MDM), I was able to have a Guest account that I wanted wiped after each use. I accomplished this by setting the guest $HOME to somewhere in /tmp. For example by running `usermod -d /tmp/home/guest guest`. Every time the machine was rebooted, the /tmp directory is wiped. More importantly, in past versions of LM when my guest user would log in, their starting home directory would get recreated - I assume just a copy of /etc/skel.

Under newer LM, ones that use MDM, under the above situation, I only get the message:
"Your home directory is listed as: '/tmp/home/guest' but it does not appear to exist. ..."
The login fails.

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

According to Clem, this is currently not supported, but you can open a feature request at https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm/issues/

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

Update: first check https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm/issues/51 - if this is what you want, then there's no need to create another report, it's enough to leave a comment at the existing one.

[SiKing (mark-lehky)]

That github issue 51 seems pretty close to what I was talking about. I'll wait for it to come out.
Thanx.