#UBUNTU MATE AUTO LOGIN MANUAL#
You may also want to explicitly enable manual login with this feature. If you want to disable this (you have too many users or security concerns) use the following configuration. Unity Greeter (and some other greeters) shows the list of possible user accounts by default. There is an additional config file: /etc/lightdm/nfīut this config file will be ignored if accountsservice is running on your system (if you are unsure, check from a shell prompt with the command ps -aef | grep accountsservice).īy default LightDM allows you to log into a session as a temporary user disable this with: Files are read in the above order and combined together to make the LightDM configuration.įor example, if you want to override the system configured default session (provided in /usr/share/lightdm//nf) you should make a file /etc/lightdm//nf with the following: Īn example file showing all the possible configuration is provided in /usr/share/doc/lightdm/. System administrators can override this configuration in /etc/lightdm//*.conf and /etc/lightdm/nf.
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System provided configuration is stored in /usr/share/lightdm//*.conf and is not user editable. LightDM configuration is provided by the following files: /usr/share/lightdm//*.conf
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Later versions of lightdm (15.10 onwards) have replaced the obsolete with The default greeter in Ubuntu up to version 16.04 LTS is Unity Greeter. LightDM starts the X servers, user sessions and greeter (login screen).
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While it has been replaced by GDM in later Ubuntu releases, LightDM is still used by default in the latest release of several Ubuntu flavors. LightDM is the display manager running in Ubuntu up to version 16.04 LTS.