[LightDM] Auto login not working

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 22:59:24 PDT 2012


any ideas what could be the cause of my autologin-issues?

Thank you in advance, Clemens

2012/7/19 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>:
> Hi Robert,
>
>> Can you attach /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log after an attempted
>> autologin? It will have the reason why. Also have a look at
>> /etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin which are the PAM rules that are used for
>> autologins.
>
> Seems autologin is not permitted on my system:
>>
>> [+1.06s] DEBUG: Automatically logging in user ce
>> [+1.06s] DEBUG: Started session 940 with service 'lightdm-autologin', username 'ce'
>> [+1.07s] DEBUG: Session 940 authentication complete with return value 6: Permission denied
>> [+1.07s] DEBUG: Autologin failed authentication
>> [+1.07s] DEBUG: Session 940: Sending SIGTERM
>
>
> Strange, it worked on Fedora 16.
>
> Contents of /etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin are:
>>
>> #%PAM-1.0
>> auth    requisite       pam_nologin.so
>> auth    required        pam_env.so readenv=1
>> auth    required        pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
>> auth    required        pam_permit.so
>> @include common-account
>> session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux.so close
>> session required        pam_limits.so
>> @include common-session
>> session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux.so open
>> @include common-password
>
> Thanks for taking time helping me :)
>
> - Clemens


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