[LightDM] User login/logout scripts

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> [2012-12-21 05:20]:
> Hi folks,
> 
> After grabbing the source packages for lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter 
> from Debian experimental and applying some patches to lightdm to fix the 
> language selector, I now have it working on a Debian wheezy test system.
> 
> However, before it's ready for production, I need it to run a user login 
> script and a user logout script. Unfortunately, it seems lightdm is only 
> capable of running these scripts as root (via session-setup-script and 
> session-cleanup-script), which makes things a little more complicated, 
> instead of as the user logging in or out.
> 
> My question is, what is the most reliable way to determine the user 
> account name involved when these login and logout scripts are run?

Both scripts are called with USER/LOGNAME/HOME set, however they
are not intended for that. It is probably more appropriate to
hook these scripts into the session wrapper and/or your window
manager/desktop environment.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster