I’ve just upgraded my Grand-Daughters PC to Peppermint 5 and during installation I selected it to login without a password, then as an afterthought I decided it would be a good idea to add an Admin account because lately she’s discovered the file manager and become a little more adventurous navigating through the file system.
I thought once I added the new account I would be presented with a login screen on reboot but it still loads straight into Chloes account so I have no way of logging into the Admin account
in Users & Groups I’ve set both accounts to ask for password on login but it’s still logging straight into Chloes account
I have similar problem to Graeme, but the other way round.
I have just built up a desktop with Peppermint 5 and set it to auto login - but it always requests a password. I’ve checked the lightdm.conf file and I am set to log in automatically. Any ideas?
As an aside, I used your gedit command out of laziness just to inspect the file and, although it worked, I received this error as well:
[i]keith@dt0 ~ $ sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[sudo] password for keith:
** (gedit:1805): WARNING **: Could not load Gedit repository: Typelib file for namespace ‘GtkSource’, version ‘3.0’ not found
(gedit:1805): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
[/i]
Is that important?
They’re only Gtk warnings for gedit and can be safely ignored
The first is about a missing package for the gedit “syntax highlighting” plugin … If you really want to get rid of it (but there’s no need) you can install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0
sudo apt install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0
The other one you can do little about … it’s where GD is trying to access the org.gnome.SessionManager dbus directive, but that directive is not provided. That directive does not exist in Peppermint as we don’t use the Gnome session manager … as I said this is quite normal and can be safely ignored, they’re warnings not errors
When does it ask for a password ?
are you saying you still get the login screen ?
Did you elect to have an encrypted /home folder during the install ?
Hi Mark.
Thank you for the detailed explanation for the “errors” - I’m not bothered about their appearance if it’s not important, as you indicate.
When does it ask for a password ? at initial login and whenever the screen saver goes black and I press a key to get back in. Are you saying you still get the login screen ? Yep! despite what it says in the lightdm.conf file. Did you elect to have an encrypted /home folder during the install ? No, I remembered your previous comments about encryption and made sure that nothing was encrypted.
I rebuilt the system today and it persisted in demanding a password each time I rebooted or the screen saver activated. However…
Before noticing your post, I installed gnome-session-fallback and when rebooting it went straight to autologin! Just to add some mystery, my user account is now showing that a password is required to login but lightdm.conf still shows auto login is set:
keith@dt0 /etc/lightdm $ more lightdm.conf [SeatDefaults]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=keith
autologin-user-timeout=0
autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
I shall try changing my user account to auto login and see what happens…
[EDIT] changing the login method in “Users & Groups” has no effect. The only way to change the auto/password login is via lightdm.conf.
[EDIT 2] I attempted to try classic view (gnome fallback) to see if there was any difference in behaviour but the login screen doesn’t offer a choice of desktop.
Sorry, Mark - I missed your post. Here is the result: sudo chown -v keith:keith ~/Desktop/logs.tar.gz chown: cannot access ‘/home/keith/Desktop/logs.tar.gz’: No such file or directory
failed to change ownership of ‘/home/keith/Desktop/logs.tar.gz’ to keith:keith
The file does appear on my desktop but I shall have to use another PC to put it on Dropbox - I’ll let you know when done.
No problem, Mark.
Since this PC is just for playing with, a solution is not really necessary for me, but in view of the similar enquiries found on the web I’m guessing that there will be many readers who might find it useful if you succeed in finding a solution. But please don’t spend too much of your valuable time on it.
