[LightDM] Autologin questions

[Robert Ancell]

1) Check your /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log - this should give some
indication of what state LightDM is in
2) https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1302491


On 25 June 2014 07:34, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> I have set up a batch of workstations at a library using DRBL. These
> workstations are running Ubuntu 14.04. I want these workstations to
> autologin
> to a specific user (a different one for each workstation, since the /home
> file
> system is NFS mounted). I have a custom copy of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
> for
> each workstation and I have set autologin-user-timeout=30 and
> autologin-user=workstationuser (different for each workstation). This
> mostly
> works, but there are some 'weirdnesses' I would like to resolve.
>
>     1) Doing a Shutdown from the gear menu and then restarting the machine
> does
>     not always log the user in. Sometimes it behaves like the user 'locked'
>     the screen and it is expecting to unlock a running session. I want a
>     shutdown to imply a full logout (it is too much to ask the library
> staff
>     people to logout and then shutdown). Always. These are guest accounts,
> so
>     there is never a session to save (screen locking is also disabled).
>
>     2) Doing a logout from the gear menu brings up the list of all possible
>     users. This is OK (sometimes someone wants or need to login as a
>     'real' user). But if the login screen is left alone and/or after the
>     'real' user logs out, it does not automagically re-login to the
>     autologin-user. What do I need to do to fix this?
>
> I am not very experienced with Ubuntu -- I am an old hand with CentOS and
> RedHat.
>
> (I asked this question on the AskUbuntu forum over 9 days ago, but got no
> responses.)
>
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