Thats both good and bad news then! Hopefully you will find another feature that needs improvement.
Yes, we might as well close this. As it's probably not a big limitation to specify a default username. Ack on the documentation issue. We'll just add that to the list of documentation deficiencies... ** Changed in: lightdm Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: lightdm/1.10 Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Utopic) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371710 Title: autologin should support PAM_USER Status in Light Display Manager: Invalid Status in Light Display Manager 1.10 series: Invalid Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “lightdm” source package in Trusty: Invalid Status in “lightdm” source package in Utopic: Invalid Bug description: There should be a way to specify the autologin-user via PAM_USER. Currently, to enable autologin you specify autologin-user in the lightdm.conf file, and any value of PAM_USER returned after pam_authenticate() is ignored. This means if you want to affect autologin so that different users are logged in at different times, based on some external criteria, you must rewrite the lightdm configuration and restart the service each time. One approach would be to add a new key e.g. "autologin-user-pam=true" which would enable autologin and use the PAM_USER returned by pam_authenticate() as the user to log in. It might make sense that if PAM_USER is *not* set by the call to pam_authenticate to fall back to the autologin-user value, or else to disable autologin entirely. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1371710/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp