Package: lightdm
Version: 1.10.3-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have had a problem with autologin on desktop computers.
* What led up to the situation?
I attempted to use autologin with lightdm (and kdm for that matter).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I uncommented the lines in lightdm.conf that enable autologin, as can
be seen in the attached lightdm.conf.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Nothing happened upon reboot, lightdm still showed a greeter asking for
username and password.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected lightdm to log me in to my desktop as I had configured it to
do.
Lightdm has only been tested with XFCE, and on a laptop it automatically logs
me in. But on two different desktop computers, it has failed to autologin, and
has continued to ask for username and password. The reason I mention KDM is
because KDM also failed to autologin. All of these were installed on a nearly
clean installation of Debian 8.2 with XFCE, SSH server, and standard system
utilities tasks selected on install.
I can attach the KDM log if you like as well, although it is not very
descriptive.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u2
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libxcb1 1.10-3+b1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1+b1
ii lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter] 1.8.5-2
Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+7
Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii accountsservice 0.6.37-3+b1
ii upower 0.99.1-3.2
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed:
[LightDM]
autologin-user = oldtechaa
autologin-user-timeout = 0
[SeatDefaults]
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
