On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:50 AM Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > > Before anyone asks, i've looked all over the wiki and every other post > online so i'm not sure why this isn't working. When I start up my machine X > starts up fine. and it goes to the lightdm login screen, but it still makes > me put in the password. > > > > My user is in the autologin and nopasswdlogin groups, i've made the > right changes to both the files listed below as A and B sources. > > I've always had no problem with autologin with lightdm, all I ever had > to do was to set autologin-user in the [Seat:*] in > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf . Another option that I have used > successfuly is using lightdm-autologin-greeter and setting up > autologin-user in > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/lightdm-autologin-greeter.conf > > I guess you already checked this but double check you are able to > login with that user using a password. > > Alex > Thanks for the reply, Alex. I haven't messed with it since yesterday, but i'll try restoring the config files to their defaults and start over from there. I'm not sure if it matters, but usually when I want any graphical system with Debian, i install one of the desktop environments during the initial setup. This install is for a very limited thin client with only 4gb internal storage, so i had to install only SSH server and standard system utilities, then install X / Openbox / LightDM after the fact. I found out the hard way when I ran out of disk space trying to install LXDE as well. I may be missing some packages needed to help facilitate autologin, not sure. If your suggestions don't fix it i will reply to this thread later tonight with my findings. Thanks again, Shea
