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Re: Autologin not working (lightdm, openbox)

From	Shea Alterio <krusete@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Autologin not working (lightdm, openbox)
Date	2018-08-28 03:10 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:50 AM Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.rossi@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

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Autologin not working (lightdm, openbox) Shea Alterio <krusete@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 09:40 +0200
  Re: Autologin not working (lightdm, openbox) Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.rossi@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 11:00 +0200
    Re: Autologin not working (lightdm, openbox) Shea Alterio <krusete@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 03:10 +0200

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