[LightDM] Autologin (lightdm) questions

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:53:21 +1200 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

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

So I would have to snag a non-stock set of .deb files or build my own .deb 
files, from the source... I wonder what sort of dependency hell that would 
entail...

Do the Ubuntu maintainers know about this?  Are there plans to back-port the 
changes to LightDM for the version shipped with 14.04 or package a newer 
version of LightDM for 14.04?  In many ways, this is a somewhat serious bug.  
Has one been filed under Ubuntu?  I know there is one under LightDM, but 
unless the Ubuntu package maintainers get involved, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will 
continue to be 'broken'?

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