Comment 4 for bug 886490

On 2011-11-05 12:04, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Does that "tutorial" still aply? Seems to be almost a year old.

It is, but I updated it a couple of days ago with a tarball aimed at 11.10 and LightDM.

> Seems as if these guest session functionality had been
> moved into lightdm itself somewhere in the beta state of 11.10.

Right.

> There is not even a /etc/guest-session on my machines.

It's created if you install that tarball.

> Now it seems to setup the guest account through
> /usr/sbin/guest-account, which uses some files from /etc/guest-session,
> if they exist.

Precisely.

> It however allows only local settings, but not a different method of
> mounting the file system.

True, but I got the impression from your bug description that it's customization possibilities you are after, and that changing the mount method isn't an end in itself.

Why not install the tarball for LightDM and study its customization ideas?