A hack to autologin

General Questions
1

Guys, any trick with making [2018-12-08-ubiquity-xenial-lxde] to login automatically?
I have read tons of manuals on this topic, even posted at ubuntu-specific forums, but all suggested solutions don’t work:

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=ubuntu
autologin-user-timeout=0
user-session=ubuntu

greeter-session=unity-greeter

For greeter-session I tried other values as well, no success.
The problem can be partially solved in GUI - to make the system login without password, but that’s not what is required.

2

What kind of auto login are you attempting? As in you are trying to get the graphical session to automatically load to the desktop instead of requiring a password?

Rohan

3

I would like to have my Raspberry automatically logging in to GUI as default (ubuntu) user without password request. Currently my greeting page of GUI shows a small window with “Ubuntu User” and a button “Unlock”. It waits for the button to be pressed by somebody. I would like to avoid this step - just want the system to bypass this step.

4

The correct answer occurred to be:

You will need to create an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents: (do this as root)

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user={YOUR USER}
autologin-user-timeout=0
user-session=Lubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

SOLVED

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5

My solution for auto-login was slightly different.

This worked both on the Lubuntu (from Ubiquity download) of 2018-Dec-08, and on the previous version of 2018-Nov-15

  • Create the following file

    sudo   touch  /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-autologin.conf

  • Edit the file

    sudo   nano  /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-autologin.conf

  • Add the contents as follows:

    [Seat:*]
autologin-guest = false
autologin-user = ubuntu
autologin-user-timeout = 0
 
[SeatDefaults]
allow-guest =  false
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