[LightDM] Autologin (lightdm) questions

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:48:39 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> # 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.

I have no idea whether it'll be backported. You'd have to ask on
ubuntu-devel-discuss or on the lightdm list

You don't need to upgrade your entire system to 14.10. You can just
pull in lightdm and, possibly, its dependencies from 14.10.