Bug 563564 – x11-misc/lightdm no create lightdm system user

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description cronolio 2015-10-20 13:34:08 UTC]

x11-misc/lightdm-1.10.5 no create lightdm system user

[ebuild   R    ] x11-misc/lightdm-1.10.5::gentoo  USE="gtk introspection -kde -qt4" 0 KiB


~ # cat /etc/passwd | grep lightdm
~ # 
nothing



some people may uncomment this 
[LightDM]
#greeter-user=lightdm

in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[Comment 1 Alexander Tsoy 2015-10-20 13:46:00 UTC]

And default user should be changed to lightdm imo. From the ebuild:

_user=${LIGHTDM_USER:=root}

[Comment 2 cronolio 2016-04-23 08:15:55 UTC]

UPD:
any news?

[Comment 3 Christian Widmer 2018-08-17 06:30:14 UTC]

Created attachment 543760 [details]
lightdm ebuild that creates and uses a lightdm user

This ebuild uses user creation stuff that has been shamelessly copied from the gdm ebuild and modified a bit. Furthermore, I used the opportunity to add a keepdir for /var/lib/lightdm-data because portage complains about creating empty directories without making sure they have a keep file in them.
I am using this ebuild myself at the moment and everything seems to work fine.

[Comment 4 Christian Widmer 2018-08-18 16:33:54 UTC]

Created attachment 543948 [details]
lightdm-1.26.0-r2.ebuild v2

This version of the ebuild improves on the first one by:
- using the value of the environment variable LIGHTDM_USER (defaulting to lightdm) as user to allow for customization
- removing the check if the user is in the video group that was carried over from the gdm ebuild as the scenarios where this would be necessary are limited
- removing the dodir /var/lib/lightdm-data as it is redundant with keepdir
- removing the keepdir for the home directory as it is created by esethome in pkg_setup() and thus not tracked by portage anyway

[Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow 2019-05-20 09:24:30 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c153424ee8ba62a055bf1d971264c8cf7a8e3d9f

commit c153424ee8ba62a055bf1d971264c8cf7a8e3d9f
Author:     Lars Wendler <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-05-20 09:07:32 +0000
Commit:     Lars Wendler <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-05-20 09:24:22 +0000

    x11-misc/lightdm: Bump to version 1.30.0
    
    Added "non_root" USE flag in order to run lightdm no as root
    
    Thanks-to: Christian Widmer <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/563564
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.66, Repoman-2.3.12
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <[e-mail]>

 x11-misc/lightdm/Manifest              |   1 +
 x11-misc/lightdm/lightdm-1.30.0.ebuild | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 x11-misc/lightdm/metadata.xml          |   1 +
 3 files changed, 156 insertions(+)