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rayandrews

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From: Vancouver B.C. Canada

Registered: 2011-12-30

Posts: 179

[SOLVED] auto login

I achieved auto login a while back with these changes:

in: /etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin: comment this line:
# auth      required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet_success

in: /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: add these three lines:
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=root
autologin-user-timeout=0

... but yesterday it just stopped working.  The files have not been changed subsequently but I'm back to having to log in.  I didn't change anything.  How to get auto login back?

Last edited by rayandrews (2023-03-20 15:32:07)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,000

Re: [SOLVED] auto login

Look at your lightdm log files (/var/log/lightdm) to see what is happening. Perhaps some error messages there? Feel free to post back the contents of the lightdm.log and seat0-greeter.log files.

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rayandrews

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From: Vancouver B.C. Canada

Registered: 2011-12-30

Posts: 179

Re: [SOLVED] auto login

Thanks ToZ.  Seems my syslog had mushroomed to over 3G (why do they let that happen?) and it had filled my disk solid.  I hacked it back to a trim 1G and that's solved the problem.  systemD does like to make things as difficult as possible.

Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 819

Re: [SOLVED] auto login

systemD does seem to be made for system programmers as a convenience (as a robot for when things are OK) rather than as a system management abstraction that take care of everything the right way.  maybe they need to integrate ChatGPT into it?  no, wait, that might be worse.

Last edited by Skaperen (2023-03-23 19:46:25)

rayandrews

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From: Vancouver B.C. Canada

Registered: 2011-12-30

Posts: 179

Re: [SOLVED] auto login

Debian now has a fork that's gone back to SysInit, so I hear.