Debian – auto login on xfce in jessie

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I have started running Jessie (Debian 8) with a LightDM/Xfce desktop on my HTPC after it grinding to a near-halt on W7. One of the things that I cannot get past is having to type the password — not a normal thing to do for watching TV.

Following the instructions on the Debian Wiki I got as far as my login being automatically selected. But this still requires the password, and half-fixes like empty / trivial passwords are not allowed.

Is it possible to go straight to the Xfce session without login/password?

Best Answer

This page describes how to enable it.

Edit the LightDM configuration file and ensure these lines are uncommented and correctly configured:

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[Seat:*]
pam-service=lightdm
pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
autologin-user=username
autologin-user-timeout=0
session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter

LightDM goes through PAM even when autologin is enabled. You must be part of the autologin group to be able to login automatically without entering your password:

# groupadd -r autologin
# gpasswd -a username autologin

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create the script below in e.g. /etc/lightdm/restart and make it executable (chmod 755), then enter the path to the script in /etc/lightdm/lighdm.conf as session-cleanup-script value:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=ubuntu
autologin-user=kiosk
autologin-user-timeout=10
allow-guest=no
session-cleanup-script=/etc/lightdm/restart

and here is the script:

#!/bin/bash

trap "" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
service lightdm restart

This will restart lightdm whenever someone logs out, restarting the auto-login process.

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