Activate Auto login on boot for nightly build

[dragonlost]

Hello,

I usually use the Next version of the image for the tinkerboard. I would like to use the nightly version. But the nightly version does not automatically log on to the user I created at the beginning in contradiction to the other version.

How do I reactivate automatic login in nightly build ? Thanks

[qaplus]

Try to add:

 

autologin-user=<your name>

 

to file: 

 

/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

 

 

[freak]

This isn't how next does it.  /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf doesn't exist.  I'm curious how next does it.  Anyone know?

[freak]

Maybe /etc/default/nodm?

[freak]

Yep...

 

edit /etc/default/nodm

 

Make sure these two lines are set correctly,,,

 

# Set NODM_ENABLED to something different than 'false' to enable nodm
NODM_ENABLED=true

# User to autologin for
NODM_USER=your_user_name

 

[freak]

I should add that's how next does it.  Try it with nightly and let us know.

[Igor]

Auto desktop login is by default if a user is created during the first boot. Perhaps that is the problem? Or bad SD card media?

[freak]

I've seen it not work with certain images.  Not sure why.  I've also accidentally killed the user creation process.  So if we want to do this manually is this the proper method?  It's working for me but I'm having trouble making the user a sudoer.  Running visudo but must be making a mistake somewhere.

[freak]

Seems like with one of the nightly images it booted to a graphical login screen even if you created the user at first boot.

[Igor]

Two things. Nightly images are not supported - they are built automatically from latest source. They work or not. We discover such troubles in next couple of days ... Second. If you break the user creation, your desktop will not go up - just read the text at first login/user creation. It's written what will happen.

 

I am not exactly sure, but creating a user manually and adding/enabling /etc/default/nodm + reboot might do.

[freak]

Yeah it works they're just not a sudoer like the auto created user is.