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holiday

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MATE autologin raising login dialog

With  autologin configured I expect that system boot will eventually land me at my desktop. But instead I'm presented with a login dialog that I have confirm. It doesn't ask for a password, it just wants to be clicked or keyed.

I've followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightD … _autologin and have this :

# groups stephen

wheel users autologin nopasswdlogin stephen

cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[LightDM]
run-directory=/run/lightdm

[Seat:*]
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
autologin-user=stephen
autologin-session=/usr/share/xsessions/mate.desktop
autologin-user-timeout=0

[XDMCPServer]

[VNCServer]

cat /etc/pam.d/lightdm
#%PAM-1.0
auth        sufficient  pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin
auth        include     system-login
-auth       optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so
account     include     system-login
password    include     system-login
session     include     system-login
-session    optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,483

Re: MATE autologin raising login dialog

Is that from the mate session?
Do you get the same dialog when autologin…in into eg. openbox?

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holiday

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Registered: 2021-05-26

Posts: 24

Re: MATE autologin raising login dialog

Is that from the mate session?
Do you get the same dialog when autologin…in into eg. openbox?

I'm sorry I don't understand your question.

Is what from the mate session? Do you mean the output I'm quoting?

The quotes are from the configuration files.

In the journal there is this

pam_systemd_home(lightdm:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found

but the rest of the lightdm startup looks okay to my inadequately informed eye.

Jun 01 17:31:30 asgl systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Jun 01 17:31:31 asgl systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Jun 01 17:31:34 asgl lightdm[858]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm(uid=972) by (uid=0)
Jun 01 17:31:34 asgl lightdm[921]: pam_succeed_if(lightdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup nopasswdlogin" was met by user "stephen"
Jun 01 17:31:34 asgl lightdm[921]: pam_systemd_home(lightdm:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jun 01 17:31:36 asgl lightdm[921]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user stephen(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Jun 01 17:31:36 asgl lightdm[921]: pam_env(lightdm:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled
Jun 01 17:31:36 asgl lightdm[921]: gkr-pam: gnome-keyring-daemon started properly

Last edited by holiday (2021-06-02 00:35:57)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,483

Re: MATE autologin raising login dialog

home1.service is just spam, you can ignore that unless you really want to try lennarts DOA homed nonsolution to nobodys problem.

Is what from the mate session?

You get a not further described "dialog".
The question is, is that "dialog" actually from lightdm or from mate.
Eg. you could log into a locked mate session or whatnot.

=> That is why you shall log into an openbox session and see whether the "dialog" still appears.
And best *link* a screenshot (of the dialog, not your wallpaper…)

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