Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 3b78237cc083310bfb5326d01459c1af0c13d43a)
+++ general.ent	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "04">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "05">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "01">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2018">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "January 4th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "January 5th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
@@ -78,6 +78,6 @@
 <!-- End LFS versions -->
 
-<!ENTITY blfs-bootscripts-version     "20170731">
-<!ENTITY systemd-units-version        "20160602">
+<!ENTITY blfs-bootscripts-version     "20180105">
+<!ENTITY systemd-units-version        "20180105">
 
 
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 3b78237cc083310bfb5326d01459c1af0c13d43a)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
@@ -42,4 +42,13 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>January 5th, 2018</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Add lightdm.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>January 4th, 2018</para>
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 3b78237cc083310bfb5326d01459c1af0c13d43a)
+++ packages.ent	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
@@ -589,4 +589,6 @@
 
 <!-- Chapter 26 -->
+<!ENTITY lightdm-version              "1.24.0">
+<!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-version  "2.0.3">
 <!ENTITY lxdm-version                 "0.5.3">
 <!ENTITY sddm-version                 "0.16.0">
Index: postlfs/config/users.xml
===================================================================
--- postlfs/config/users.xml	(revision 3b78237cc083310bfb5326d01459c1af0c13d43a)
+++ postlfs/config/users.xml	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
@@ -112,4 +112,5 @@
         <row><entry>lightdm </entry><entry>63</entry><entry>63</entry></row>
         <row><entry>sddm    </entry><entry>64</entry><entry>64</entry></row>
+        <row><entry>lightdm </entry><entry>65</entry><entry>65</entry></row>
         <row><entry>scanner </entry><entry>  </entry><entry>70</entry></row>
         <row><entry>colord  </entry><entry>71</entry><entry>71</entry></row>
Index: x/dm/dm.xml
===================================================================
--- x/dm/dm.xml	(revision 3b78237cc083310bfb5326d01459c1af0c13d43a)
+++ x/dm/dm.xml	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
@@ -62,4 +62,5 @@
   </sect1>
 
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="lightdm.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="lxdm.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="sddm.xml"/>
Index: x/dm/lightdm.xml
===================================================================
--- x/dm/lightdm.xml	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
+++ x/dm/lightdm.xml	(revision 7d4600c3b8aefae448205db386a22ca10b2de028)
@@ -0,0 +1,414 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+
+<!-- lightdm -->
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-download-http "https://launchpad.net/lightdm/1.24/&lightdm-version;/+download/lightdm-&lightdm-version;.tar.xz">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-download-ftp  " ">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-md5sum        "76d65ba5d1bc93e80b611771698739db">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-size          "508 KB">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-buildsize     "20 MB">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-time          "0.2 SBU ">
+
+<!-- lightdm-gtk-greeter -->
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-download-http "https://launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/2.0/&lightdm-gtk-greeter-version;/+download/lightdm-gtk-greeter-&lightdm-gtk-greeter-version;.tar.gz">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-download-ftp  " ">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-md5sum        "29f352906d200568cceb4d449b5619c6">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-size          "480 KB">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-buildsize     "3.9 MB">
+  <!ENTITY lightdm-gtk-greeter-time          "less than 0.1 SBU ">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="lightdm" xreflabel="lightdm-&lightdm-version;">
+  <?dbhtml filename="lightdm.html"?>
+
+  <sect1info>
+    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
+    <date>$Date$</date>
+  </sect1info>
+
+  <title>lightdm-&lightdm-version;</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="lightdm">
+    <primary sortas="a-lightdm">lightdm</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <sect2 role="package">
+    <title>Introduction to Lightdm</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The <application>lightdm</application> package contains a lightweight
+      display manager based upon GTK.
+    </para>
+
+    &lfs81_checked;
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Lightdm Package Information</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&lightdm-download-http;"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&lightdm-download-ftp;"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download MD5 sum: &lightdm-md5sum;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download size: &lightdm-size;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Estimated disk space required: &lightdm-buildsize;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Estimated build time: &lightdm-time;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        The greeter is a program to present a graphical login screen.  There
+        are several alternative greeters, but the gtk+ package is the reference
+        implementation.  For a list of other greeters, see <ulink
+        url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightDM"/>.
+      </para>
+    </note>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Lightdm-gtk-greeter Package Information</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&lightdm-gtk-greeter-download-http;"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&lightdm-gtk-greeter-download-ftp;"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download MD5 sum: &lightdm-gtk-greeter-md5sum;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download size: &lightdm-gtk-greeter-size;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Estimated disk space required: &lightdm-gtk-greeter-buildsize;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Estimated build time: &lightdm-gtk-greeter-time;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Lightdm Dependencies</bridgehead>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
+    <para role="required">
+      <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
+      <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
+      <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>, and
+      <xref linkend="pcre"/> 
+    </para>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
+      <xref linkend="libxklavier"/>, and 
+      <xref linkend="vala"/>
+    </para>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
+    <para role="optional">
+      <xref linkend="at-spi2-core"/>, 
+      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>, 
+      <xref linkend="itstool"/>, 
+      <xref linkend="qt5"/>,
+      <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/intltool">intltool</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/ido">libido</ulink>, and
+      <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libindicator">libindicator</ulink>
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
+      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/lightdm"/>
+    </para>
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of Lightdm</title>
+
+    <para>
+      First, create a dedicated user and group to take
+      control of the <command>lightdm</command> daemon after it is
+      started. Issue the following commands as the
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 65 lightdm       &amp;&amp;
+useradd  -c "Lightdm Daemon" \
+         -d /var/lib/lightdm \
+         -u 65 -g lightdm    \
+         -s /bin/false lightdm</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      Install <application>lightdm</application> by running the following
+      commands:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure                          \
+       --prefix=/usr                 \
+       --libexecdir=/usr/lib/lightdm \
+       --localstatedir=/var          \
+       --sbindir=/usr/bin            \
+       --sysconfdir=/etc             \
+       --disable-static              \
+       --disable-tests               \
+       --with-greeter-user=lightdm   \
+       --with-greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter \
+       --docdir=/usr/share/doc/lightdm-&lightdm-version; &amp;&amp;
+make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      This package does not come with a test suite.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install                                                  &amp;&amp;
+cp tests/src/lightdm-session /usr/bin                         &amp;&amp;
+rm -rf /etc/init                                              &amp;&amp;
+install -v -dm755 -o lightdm -g lightdm /var/lib/lightdm      &amp;&amp;
+install -v -dm755 -o lightdm -g lightdm /var/lib/lightdm-data &amp;&amp;
+install -v -dm755 -o lightdm -g lightdm /var/cache/lightdm    &amp;&amp;
+install -v -dm770 -o lightdm -g lightdm /var/log/lightdm</userinput></screen>
+
+     <para>Now build the greeter:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.3.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
+cd lightdm-gtk-greeter &amp;&amp;
+
+export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-declaration-after-statement" &amp;&amp;
+
+./configure                      \
+   --prefix=/usr                 \
+   --libexecdir=/usr/lib/lightdm \
+   --sbindir=/usr/bin            \
+   --sysconfdir=/etc             \
+   --with-libxklavier            \
+   --enable-kill-on-sigterm      \
+   --disable-libido              \
+   --disable-libindicator        \
+   --disable-static              
+   --docdir=/usr/share/doc/lightdm-gtk-greeter-&lightdm-gtk-greeter-version; &amp;&amp;
+
+make</userinput></screen>
+ 
+    <para>
+      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+<!--
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release</parameter>: This switch is used to
+      apply additional compiler optimizations.
+    </para>
+
+  </sect2>
+-->
+  <sect2 role="configuration">
+    <title>Configuring lightdm</title>
+
+    <sect3 id="lightdm-config">
+      <title>Config Files</title>
+
+      <para>
+        /etc/lightdm/{lightdm,users,keys}.conf
+      </para>
+
+      <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-config">
+        <primary sortas="e-etc-lightdm-lightdm.conf">/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf</primary>
+      </indexterm>
+
+      <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-config">
+        <primary sortas="e-users.conf">/etc/lightdm/users.conf</primary>
+      </indexterm>
+
+      <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-config">
+        <primary sortas="e-keys.conf">/etc/lightdm/keys.conf</primary>
+      </indexterm>
+
+      <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-config">
+        <primary sortas="e-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf">
+          /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf</primary>
+      </indexterm>
+
+   </sect3>
+
+    <sect3 id="lightdm-bootscript">
+      <title>Boot Script</title>
+
+      <para>
+        Install the <filename revision="sysv">/etc/rc.d/init.d/lightdm</filename>
+        init script from the <xref linkend="bootscripts" revision="sysv"/>
+        <xref linkend="systemd-units" revision="systemd"/> package.
+      </para>
+
+      <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-bootscript">
+        <primary sortas="f-lightdm">lightdm</primary>
+      </indexterm>
+
+<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-lightdm</userinput></screen>
+
+<screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>systemctl enable lightdm</userinput></screen>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3 id="lightdm-init" revision="sysv">
+      <title>Starting lightdm</title>
+
+      <para>
+        If the lightdm bootscript has been installed, start lightdm by running, as the
+        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>/etc/rc.d/init.d/lightdm start</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        By convention, X should be executed at runlevel 5, consequently, the
+        same is true for <application>lightdm</application>. However, LFS default
+        runlevel is 3. Changing to runlevel 5, from a console terminal, as
+        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, starts the
+        <command>lightdm</command> bootscript, bringing up the greeter screen:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>init 5</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        In order to permanently set the default to 5, starting the
+        <command>lightdm</command> greeter screen automatically, modify
+        <filename>/etc/inittab</filename>.  As the <systemitem
+        class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cp -v /etc/inittab{,-orig} &amp;&amp;
+sed -i '/initdefault/ s/3/5/' /etc/inittab</userinput></screen>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3 id="lightdm-sessions">
+      <title>Available Sessions</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The greeter offers a list of available sessions,
+        depending on the Window Managers and Desktop Environments installed. The
+        list includes sessions which have a corresponding
+        <filename>.desktop</filename> file installed under
+        <filename class="directory">/usr/share/xsessions</filename>. Most of the
+        Window Managers and Desktop Environments automatically provide those
+        files, but if necessary, you may include a custom one.
+      </para>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="content">
+    <title>Contents</title>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>
+          dm-tool, 
+          lightdm, and 
+          lightdm-gtk-greeter
+        </seg>
+        <seg>
+          liblightdm-gobject-1.so
+        </seg>
+        <seg>
+          /etc/lightdm,
+          /etc/apparmor.d,
+          /usr/lib/lightdm, 
+          /usr/include/lightdm-gobject-1,
+          /usr/share/help/C/lightdm
+          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/lightdm-gobject-1,
+          /usr/share/doc/lightdm-gtk-greeter-&lightdm-gtk-greeter-version;,
+          /var/lib/lightdm,
+          /var/lib/lightdm-data, 
+          /var/cache/lightdm, and
+          /var/log/lightdm
+        </seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+      <varlistentry id="lightdm-prog">
+        <term><command>lightdm</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            is a display and login manager.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-prog">
+            <primary sortas="b-lightdm">lightdm</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="lightdm-gtk-greeter">
+        <term><command>lightdm-gtk-greeter</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            is an auxiliary process that displays the greeter,
+            a graphical user interface that performs user
+            authentication and initiates the selected window manager
+            or display environment.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter">
+            <primary sortas="b-lightdm-gtk-greeter">lightdm-gtk-greeter</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
