[LightDM] Autologin (lightdm) questions

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:48:39 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > At Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:53:21 +1200 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 12 July 2014 01:42, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >>> At Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:06:35 +1200 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The logs are not giving any indication that "heller" is being treated
> >>>> special. The LightDM log appears to be truncated - it's not showing what
> >>>> session was run for the "catalog" user so I can't tell what session type
> >>>> it chose.
> >>>
> >>> It did not choose any session. It was just sitting there with 'Log in >' in
> >>> the password space (instead of 'Password'). I 'captured' the log file as of
> >>> that point.
> >>>
> >>> The username 'heller' seems to be considered because that was what was in
> >>> the /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/unity-greeter/state file.
> >>
> >> That file contains the last user to log in so the greeter is in the same
> >> state when you return to it.
> >>>
> >>> Question: will any greeter installed under Ubuntu 14.04 implement
> >>> re-autologin or do I have to override the 'stock' version of lightdm
> >>> somehow (build and install from source?).
> >>
> >> Re-autologin does not work in 14.04. You will have to install an updated
> >> version of LightDM for this.
> >
> > So I would have to snag a non-stock set of .deb files or build my own .deb
> > files, from the source... I wonder what sort of dependency hell that would
> > entail...
> >
> > Do the Ubuntu maintainers know about this? Are there plans to back-port the
> > changes to LightDM for the version shipped with 14.04 or package a newer
> > version of LightDM for 14.04? In many ways, this is a somewhat serious bug.
> > Has one been filed under Ubuntu? I know there is one under LightDM, but
> > unless the Ubuntu package maintainers get involved, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will
> > continue to be 'broken'?
> 
> # apt-cache show lightdm
> ...
> Maintainer: Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at ubuntu.com>
> ...
> Version: 1.11.4-0ubuntu1
> ...
> 
> 
> and
> 
> 
> # apt-get changelog lightdm
> lightdm (1.11.4-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium
> 
> * New upstream release:
> - Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
> - Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid
> which we are faking
> - dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
> * debian/lightdm.service:
> - Don't test for specific installation path
> 
> -- Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:50:16 +1200
> ...
> 
> 
> This is on 14.10.

Will this be backported (or whatever) for 14.04 LTS?  I don't want to 
'upgrade' to a non-LTS version -- I want to use a *stable* release that has 
long term support.

> 

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