[LightDM] Autologin (lightdm) questions

[Robert Ancell]

On 12 July 2014 01:42, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:06:35 +1200 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > The logs are not giving any indication that "heller" is being treated
> > special. The LightDM log appears to be truncated - it's not showing what
> > session was run for the "catalog" user so I can't tell what session type
> it
> > chose.
>
> It did not choose any session. It was just sitting there with 'Log in >' in
> the password space (instead of 'Password'). I 'captured' the log file as of
> that point.
>
> The username 'heller' seems to be considered because that was what was in
> the
> /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/unity-greeter/state file.
>

That file contains the last user to log in so the greeter is in the same
state when you return to it.

>
> Question: will any greeter installed under Ubuntu 14.04 implement
> re-autologin
> or do I have to override the 'stock' version of lightdm somehow (build and
> install from source?).
>

Re-autologin does not work in 14.04. You will have to install an updated
version of LightDM for this.
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