LightDM - Jun 2014 - Autologin questions

I have set up a batch of workstations at a library using DRBL. These 
workstations are running Ubuntu 14.04. I want these workstations to autologin 
to a specific user (a different one for each workstation, since the /home file 
system is NFS mounted). I have a custom copy of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for 
each workstation and I have set autologin-user-timeout=30 and 
autologin-user=workstationuser (different for each workstation). This mostly 
works, but there are some 'weirdnesses' I would like to resolve.

    1) Doing a Shutdown from the gear menu and then restarting the machine does 
    not always log the user in. Sometimes it behaves like the user
'locked'
    the screen and it is expecting to unlock a running session. I want a 
    shutdown to imply a full logout (it is too much to ask the library staff 
    people to logout and then shutdown). Always. These are guest accounts, so 
    there is never a session to save (screen locking is also disabled).

    2) Doing a logout from the gear menu brings up the list of all possible 
    users. This is OK (sometimes someone wants or need to login as a 
    'real' user). But if the login screen is left alone and/or after the
    'real' user logs out, it does not automagically re-login to the 
    autologin-user. What do I need to do to fix this?
        
I am not very experienced with Ubuntu -- I am an old hand with CentOS and 
RedHat.

(I asked this question on the AskUbuntu forum over 9 days ago, but got no 
responses.)

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1) Check your /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log - this should give some
indication of what state LightDM is in
2) https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1302491


On 25 June 2014 07:34, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> I have set up a batch of workstations at a library using DRBL. These
> workstations are running Ubuntu 14.04. I want these workstations to
> autologin
> to a specific user (a different one for each workstation, since the /home
> file
> system is NFS mounted). I have a custom copy of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
> for
> each workstation and I have set autologin-user-timeout=30 and
> autologin-user=workstationuser (different for each workstation). This
> mostly
> works, but there are some 'weirdnesses' I would like to resolve.
>
>     1) Doing a Shutdown from the gear menu and then restarting the machine
> does
>     not always log the user in. Sometimes it behaves like the user
'locked'
>     the screen and it is expecting to unlock a running session. I want a
>     shutdown to imply a full logout (it is too much to ask the library
> staff
>     people to logout and then shutdown). Always. These are guest accounts,
> so
>     there is never a session to save (screen locking is also disabled).
>
>     2) Doing a logout from the gear menu brings up the list of all possible
>     users. This is OK (sometimes someone wants or need to login as a
>     'real' user). But if the login screen is left alone and/or
after the
>     'real' user logs out, it does not automagically re-login to the
>     autologin-user. What do I need to do to fix this?
>
> I am not very experienced with Ubuntu -- I am an old hand with CentOS and
> RedHat.
>
> (I asked this question on the AskUbuntu forum over 9 days ago, but got no
> responses.)
>
> --
> Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com
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>
>
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