[bug] [solved] Can't set a user to log in automatically

[silvarius]

Hello,

I tried to set a user to login automatically through the MX user manager but the new setting fails to apply. To do so, I go in the options tab, select the proper user and tick the "Log in automatically box". Then, whether I click on the Apply or Close button, the user is not logged in automatically when I reboot, and when I go again in the MX user manager and select the user again, the "log in automatically" box is once again not ticked. I tried to launch the mx-tools through terminal with sudo, but without better success. Also to be noticed: in the "options" tab of the user manager, I have 2 registered users I can choose from: root and elena. But when I start the computer, the choice is demo and elena. This demo user, inherited from the usb installation probably, shouldn't be there I think.

The distribution is MX17 32 bits running on a 7 years old packard bell notebook.

Nothing critical as I can boot elena user without problem, but it just seemed interesting to report.

[dolphin_oracle]

let's try to fix this manually. and yes, you are correct, demo should not be there.

open as root /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and find this line:

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autologin-user=demo
autologin-user-timeout=0

and change the autologin-user= line to whatever user you want to log in automatically.

[silvarius]

Problem solved. Thank you very much.

You may be interested to know that in the file was the line "autologin-user=demo" in the middle of the file, but also an "autologin-user=elena" as the last line of the file. I suppose that when I tried to set the autologin through the visual interface, it added the last line without removing the initial "autologin-user=demo" line.

[richb]

Please mark solved by adding [Solved] to the title of your first post.

[silvarius]

I already had done it ;-)