Remote Sessions

A remote session allows a user to authenticate from a greeter and access a remote system.

Remote sessions are registered with a desktop file in /usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions/name.desktop. The following keys are used:

Name, Comment - May be used in the greeter to describe this session

Exec - Command to run for this session

X-LightDM-PAM-Service - PAM service to authenticate with

Instead of using standard authentication each remote session defines its own PAM service. This service should contact the server providing the session, perform authentication and then the command specified in Exec should run a program that displays the remote session.