[SOLVED] No login dailog box and no password

Crippled · 08-23-2019, 08:58 PM

I have SparkyLinux 5.8 (64-bit) installed. There is no login dialog box and no password is ever asked on boot up even though there are countless video reviews of SparkyLinux 5.8 that shows a login dialog box and password being asked. I am using the Xfce desktop envirorment. I didn't select auto login. I asked on the SparkyLinux forums but I have received no replies on this issue as of yet. Does anyone know how to get the login dialog box working?

frankbell · 08-23-2019, 09:04 PM

You have told us what you do not see when you boot the computer. What do you see? In other words, since you do not boot to a graphical display manager (GDM) with a login dialog, what do you boot to?

permaroot · 08-23-2019, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Crippled

I have SparkyLinux 5.8 (64-bit) installed. There is no login dialog box and no password is ever asked on boot up even though there are countless video reviews of SparkyLinux 5.8 that shows a login dialog box and password being asked. I am using the Xfce desktop envirorment. I didn't select auto login. I asked on the SparkyLinux forums but I have received no replies on this issue as of yet. Does anyone know how to get the login dialog box working?

If it’s automatically logging in I promise you can google “disable automatic login sparkylinux or Ubuntu “ , since It’s based in Ubuntu.

https://vitux.com/how-to-enable-disa...ntu-18-04-lts/

If auto login isn’t what happens when you log in, we need more info.

Also tell us what, if anything, you have tried that didn’t work.

Cheers!

Crippled · 08-23-2019, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

You have told us what you do not see when you boot the computer. What do you see? In other words, since you do not boot to a graphical display manager (GDM) with a login dialog, what do you boot to?

It boots through the G.U.I. to the desktop. But it never asks me for a password since login dialog box never apears.

permaroot · 08-23-2019, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Crippled

It boots through the G.U.I. to the desktop. But it never asks me for a password since login dialog box never apears.

See link above.

Crippled · 08-23-2019, 10:15 PM

Looks like this one has everyone stumped. Some movement on the SparkyLinux forum that ened up into a dead stop. I was advised to "Have a look in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf under [Seat;*] for autologin-user=

If it is uncommented (missing the #) then that is what the installer has set. - If you have already set a password, you might be safe to comment that line again to ignore autologin." Sorry for not putting in between code because there was no selection to do so. I set a password. This is what I found which I can't make any sense of this.

Quote:

[Seat:*]
#
# General configuration
#
# start-default-seat = True to always start one seat if none are defined in the configuration
# greeter-user = User to run greeter as
# minimum-display-number = Minimum display number to use for X servers
# minimum-vt = First VT to run displays on
# lock-memory = True to prevent memory from being paged to disk
# user-authority-in-system-dir = True if session authority should be in the system location
# guest-account-script = Script to be run to setup guest account
# logind-check-graphical = True to on start seats that are marked as graphical by logind
# log-directory = Directory to log information to
# run-directory = Directory to put running state in
# cache-directory = Directory to cache to
# sessions-directory = Directory to find sessions
# remote-sessions-directory = Directory to find remote sessions
# greeters-directory = Directory to find greeters
# backup-logs = True to move add a .old suffix to old log files when opening new ones
# dbus-service = True if LightDM provides a D-Bus service to control it
#
[LightDM]
#start-default-seat=true
#greeter-user=lightdm
#minimum-display-number=0
#minimum-vt=7
#lock-memory=true
#user-authority-in-system-dir=false
#guest-account-script=guest-account
#logind-check-graphical=false
#log-directory=/var/log/lightdm
#run-directory=/var/run/lightdm
#cache-directory=/var/cache/lightdm
#sessions-directory=/usr/share/lightdm/sessions:/usr/share/xsessions:/usr/share/wayland-sessions
#remote-sessions-directory=/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions
#greeters-directory=$XDG_DATA_DIRS/lightdm/greeters:$XDG_DATA_DIRS/xgreeters
#backup-logs=true
#dbus-service=true

#
# Seat configuration
#
# Seat configuration is matched against the seat name glob in the section, for example:
# [Seat:*] matches all seats and is applied first.
# [Seat:seat0] matches the seat named "seat0".
# [Seat:seat-thin-client*] matches all seats that have names that start with "seat-thin-client".
#
# type = Seat type (local, xremote, unity)
# pam-service = PAM service to use for login
# pam-autologin-service = PAM service to use for autologin
# pam-greeter-service = PAM service to use for greeters
# xserver-backend = X backend to use (mir)
# xserver-command = X server command to run (can also contain arguments e.g. X -special-option)
# xmir-command = Xmir server command to run (can also contain arguments e.g. Xmir -special-option)
# xserver-config = Config file to pass to X server
# xserver-layout = Layout to pass to X server
# xserver-allow-tcp = True if TCP/IP connections are allowed to this X server
# xserver-share = True if the X server is shared for both greeter and session
# xserver-hostname = Hostname of X server (only for type=xremote)
# xserver-display-number = Display number of X server (only for type=xremote)
# xdmcp-manager = XDMCP manager to connect to (implies xserver-allow-tcp=true)
# xdmcp-port = XDMCP UDP/IP port to communicate on
# xdmcp-key = Authentication key to use for XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 (stored in keys.conf)
# unity-compositor-command = Unity compositor command to run (can also contain arguments e.g. unity-system-compositor -special-option)
# unity-compositor-timeout = Number of seconds to wait for compositor to start
# greeter-session = Session to load for greeter
# greeter-hide-users = True to hide the user list
# greeter-allow-guest = True if the greeter should show a guest login option
# greeter-show-manual-login = True if the greeter should offer a manual login option
# greeter-show-remote-login = True if the greeter should offer a remote login option
# user-session = Session to load for users
# allow-user-switching = True if allowed to switch users
# allow-guest = True if guest login is allowed
# guest-session = Session to load for guests (overrides user-session)
# session-wrapper = Wrapper script to run session with
# greeter-wrapper = Wrapper script to run greeter with
# guest-wrapper = Wrapper script to run guest sessions with
# display-setup-script = Script to run when starting a greeter session (runs as root)
# display-stopped-script = Script to run after stopping the display server (runs as root)
# greeter-setup-script = Script to run when starting a greeter (runs as root)
# session-setup-script = Script to run when starting a user session (runs as root)
# session-cleanup-script = Script to run when quitting a user session (runs as root)
# autologin-guest = True to log in as guest by default
# autologin-user = User to log in with by default (overrides autologin-guest)
# autologin-user-timeout = Number of seconds to wait before loading default user
# autologin-session = Session to load for automatic login (overrides user-session)
# autologin-in-background = True if autologin session should not be immediately activated
# exit-on-failure = True if the daemon should exit if this seat fails
#
[Seat:*]
#type=local
#pam-service=lightdm
#pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
#pam-greeter-service=lightdm-greeter
#xserver-backend=
#xserver-command=X
#xmir-command=Xmir
#xserver-config=
#xserver-layout=
#xserver-allow-tcp=false
#xserver-share=true
#xserver-hostname=
#xserver-display-number=
#xdmcp-manager=
#xdmcp-port=177
#xdmcp-key=
#unity-compositor-command=unity-system-compositor
#unity-compositor-timeout=60
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter
#greeter-hide-users=false
#greeter-allow-guest=true
#greeter-show-manual-login=false
#greeter-show-remote-login=true
user-session=xfce
#allow-user-switching=true
#allow-guest=true
#guest-session=
#session-wrapper=lightdm-session
#greeter-wrapper=
#guest-wrapper=
#display-setup-script=
#display-stopped-script=
#greeter-setup-script=
#session-setup-script=
#session-cleanup-script=
#autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=mauser
#autologin-user-timeout=0
#autologin-in-background=false
#autologin-session=
#exit-on-failure=false

#
# XDMCP Server configuration
#
# enabled = True if XDMCP connections should be allowed
# port = UDP/IP port to listen for connections on
# listen-address = Host/address to listen for XDMCP connections (use all addresses if not present)
# key = Authentication key to use for XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 or blank to not use authentication (stored in keys.conf)
# hostname = Hostname to report to XDMCP clients (defaults to system hostname if unset)
#
# The authentication key is a 56 bit DES key specified in hex as 0xnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Alternatively
# it can be a word and the first 7 characters are used as the key.
#
[XDMCPServer]
#enabled=false
#port=177
#listen-address=
#key=
#hostname=

#
# VNC Server configuration
#
# enabled = True if VNC connections should be allowed
# command = Command to run Xvnc server with
# port = TCP/IP port to listen for connections on
# listen-address = Host/address to listen for VNC connections (use all addresses if not present)
# width = Width of display to use
# height = Height of display to use
# depth = Color depth of display to use
#
[VNCServer]

permaroot · 08-23-2019, 10:42 PM

Is there not a GUI setting menu with an auto-login option?

Crippled · 08-24-2019, 12:44 AM

Thank you "frankbell" for trying to help. I found the solution on the SparkyLinux forum from "21grams" and some figuring out myself. The line where it says "autologin-user=mauser" needed to be changed to "#autologin-user=mauser" Just changing it as root didn't work because it would revert back to it's originonal settings. It was opening with LibreOffice by defualt. Then I remember reading something about text editors. I used Mousepad to edit it and saved it. This time when I rebooted it worked as it should of from the begining which it origonally didn't.

permaroot · 08-24-2019, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Crippled

Thank you "frankbell" for trying to help. I found the solution on the SparkyLinux forum from "21grams" and some figuring out myself. The line where it says "autologin-user=mauser" needed to be changed to "#autologin-user=mauser" Just changing it as root didn't work because it would revert back to it's originonal settings. It was opening with LibreOffice by defualt. Then I remember reading something about text editors. I used Mousepad to edit it and saved it. This time when I rebooted it worked as it should of from the begining which it origonally didn't.

It might be beneficial to learn to edit config files with the command line via a text editor like nano, vim, gvim etc.

Find the one you like and add export EDITOR=vim to .bashrc (replacing vim with the editor you want)

This should resolve permission issues such as libre office not being able to write to config files.