On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 02:09:18PM +0100, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Fri, 21 Feb 2014 22:15:49 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez > <cor...@debian.org> napísal: > > > > Enabling the list of users is not enough. Autologin works, when i > > > don't select the user in users list (Someone other - raw > > > translation from my language). But when i select the same user (or > > > it is selected from previous session), the autologin fails. > > > > Indeed, when a user is preselected autologin doesn't work, but it kind > > of make sense to me actually, since (afaict) that means someone else > > already logged in previously, and I would find it weird to log me back > > in if I just logged out. > > First, it can sound as good reason, but trace last login is job for > another tool(s). By *nix philosophy one tool has to do one job.
I won't go into this. I don't use the greeter list, but I can surely find it useful to preselect the last logged in user. > > Second, it does not work as you described. I created second account in > VM (virtual machine), selected this second account and login into it. > Then i reboot machine. While timeout i can see the login window with > the second account preselected and then autologin take its job. > Then i logout from aoutologin account and login back to it, then i > reboot the VM. After reboot is the autologin account preselected > and the autologin doesn't happen then. Anyway, this bug is not about autologin itself. > > And finally third, the autologin always happens when timeout is 0, > then nothing is traced. > > By this, your solution track, that i (autologin account) was logged in, > but do not track, when the another account was logged in. Or does track > absolutely nothing. IMO it only breaks the autologin proces. Sorry, I can't parse that sentence. > > It is time to continue with another DM and leave this tracking system > for all NSA's lovers. Come on… > > > > The password is displayed only when the users is preselected from > > > previous session - i mean: user is selected at start the LigtDM. > > > This doesn't happen, when autologin works. After logout, there is no > > > preselected user. But when i select the user and restart the > > > LightDM, the users stays preselected... > > > > So far, I manage to have an user preselected when restarting lightdm > > (wether manually or because I've just logged out of a session), but > > password doesn't appear in clear text at all. > > See attached screenshot from VM... The numbers are not a part of > password, of course, they only demonstrate the showed plain text. Well, screenshot is nice but doesn't help me understand what happens, and since I still can't reproduce… Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez
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