<div dir="ltr">Hi Robert.<div><br></div><div>I responded to you on June 29th:</div><div><a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2014-June/000628.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2014-June/000628.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>To answer your further questions:</div><div>- While many systems are likely only set up with one user set to autologin it is not uncommon to have multiple user accounts with and without autologin. I do expect this use case to work fine.</div>
<div>- Unity Greeter (the default greeter used in Ubuntu) does not give visual indication of timed logins (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1121660">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1121660</a>)</div><div>- The version of LightDM in 14.04 does not support automatic login after a session ends (<a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1302491">https://launchpad.net/bugs/1302491</a>)</div>
<div>- Yes, you can use alternative display managers in Ubuntu. For example, GDM.</div><div>- If you think you've found a bug, attach the logs as requested in the first reply and file a bug against LightDM (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+filebug">https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+filebug</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>--Robert</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 July 2014 12:47, Robert Heller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com" target="_blank">heller@deepsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OK, this question has sat, unanswered for some time now, both on the<br>
ubuntu-users list, the lightdm list, on askubuntu forum, and on the<br>
unix.stackexchange forum. I guess *no one* has done anything like this. Or<br>
is there someplace else I should post this question to? Or is there some<br>
other problem? I *think* I have stated the problem completely and carefully<br>
-- no one has asked questions about my question, so I *assume* it is<br>
understood, but *please* let me know if there is anything unclear.<br>
<br>
I have another question: How many Ubuntu users have more than one user account<br>
set up on their Ubuntu machines? Or are Ubuntu users like MS-Windows and<br>
MacOSX users: on any given machine there is only ever one and only one 'user'?<br>
A machine with just one user would never have any reason to logout and then<br>
login to another user and then logout and login to the original user, either<br>
manually or automatically.<br>
<br>
Am I the *only* one in the entire universe that has set up Ubuntu machine(s)<br>
with multiple users? *And* want to use the autologin feature?<br>
<br>
Or have I hit a bug or misfeature in lightdm that *no one* else has stumbled<br>
across? Does it make sense to file a bug report? With lightdm? Or with Ubuntu?<br>
Or both? Or is there something I am totally missing here? When I set things up<br>
way back when with CentOS 5, using the GDM Greeter, things worked great. The<br>
old machines would come up and after thirty seconds would autologin to their<br>
proper guest accounts. If one logged out of the guest account, the GDM Greeter<br>
would come backup up with 30 second timeout and log back into the guest<br>
account, unless you logged into another account and when you logged out of the<br>
other account, the GDM Greeter would do its 30 second timeout thing. (And it<br>
displayed the remaining seconds left until it autologined. lightdm does not<br>
seem to do that. It does (most of the time) auto login the *first time*, but<br>
doesn't after a logout. And there seem to be cases where it does not autologin<br>
after a reboot (generally when the user does not logout before shutting down<br>
the machine).<br>
<br>
Is there an alternitive to lightdm for Ubuntu 14.04? Is it possible or<br>
sensible to *replace* lightdm with a different display manager or a different<br>
greeter? *I* am feeling that lightdm's greeter is just plain broken, at least<br>
for my situation -- it might be fine for a single user machine or a multi user<br>
machine without using the autologin feature, but it appears broken in my<br>
context.<br>
<br>
<br>
At Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:12:06 -0400 Robert Heller <<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com">heller@deepsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
><br>
> I have set up a batch of workstations at a library using DRBL. These<br>
> workstations are running Ubuntu 14.04. I want these workstations to autologin<br>
> to a specific user (a different one for each workstation, since the /home file<br>
> system is NFS mounted). I have a custom copy of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for<br>
> each workstation and I have set autologin-user-timeout=30 and<br>
> autologin-user=workstationuser (different for each workstation). This mostly<br>
> works, but there are some 'weirdnesses' I would like to resolve.<br>
><br>
> 1) Doing a Shutdown from the gear menu and then restarting the machine does<br>
> not always log the user in. Sometimes it behaves like the user 'locked'<br>
> the screen and it is expecting to unlock a running session. I want a<br>
> shutdown to imply a full logout (it is too much to ask the library staff<br>
> people to logout and then shutdown). Always. These are guest accounts, so<br>
> there is never a session to save (screen locking is also disabled).<br>
><br>
> 2) Doing a logout from the gear menu brings up the list of all possible<br>
> users. This is OK (sometimes someone wants or need to login as a<br>
> 'real' user). But if the login screen is left alone and/or after the<br>
> 'real' user logs out, it does not automagically re-login to the<br>
> autologin-user. What do I need to do to fix this?<br>
><br>
> I am not very experienced with Ubuntu -- I am an old hand with CentOS and<br>
> RedHat.<br>
><br>
> (I asked this question on the AskUbuntu forum over 9 days ago, but got no<br>
> responses.)<br>
><br>
><br>
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