Weird Login Problem

[Jonesy]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 09:27:10 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 17 May 2015 at 16:34, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>> I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a friend's laptop and chose to auto login.
>>
>> The weird thing is, that once every few  (10-20) logins he gets the logon
>> screen asking for his password.
>>
>> He is in his 70's and his memory is not what it used to be. No matter what I
>> set as a password, he forgets, and forgets where he wrote it down...
>
> Are you sure that is exactly what is happening?  I know that with
> non-expert users the problem is often not quite as described.
> Possibly, for example, he is actually unintentionally logging off or
> locking the screen.  In System Settings > Brightness & Lock have you

What may be happening, and it happens here with me: When the boot 
process gets to the auto-login-display-after-5-seconds, if you hit the 
<RETURN> key you can, of course, login that much quicker.  HOWEVER, if I 
hit the numeric keypad <ENTER> key, I am informed that the password if 
wrong and I will have to enter my password properly to go any further.

It seems to be an undocumented feature of Ubuntu....
Jonesy
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