Ubuntu mini auto login

Question

Installed Ubuntu mini (Ubuntu 18.04-mini.iso) and chose at the end Lubuntu mini package option. Next issued

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core

in order to have a graphical interface.

Want to have auto login to my user account. It seems that /etc/lxdm/default.conf should be edited in order to achieve that. However, command

EDITOR=/usr/bin/leafpad sudoedit /etc/lxdm/default.conf

responds

sudoedit: /etc/lxdm/default.conf: editing symbolic links is not permitted

What should be done to edit default.conf?

I think this still works on 18.04 https://askubuntu.com/questions/426831/lxde-auto-login Newer versions are different since they no longer use LXDE — Organic Marble, Jan 08 '20 at 18:20

Organic Marble · Answer 1 · 2020-01-09T00:55:30.760

Note that this assumes your display manager is lightdm! I've no idea what comes on the mini iso.

From a stock 18.04 Ubuntu system overlaid with LXDE:

I created /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents:

You will need to create an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents:

[Seat:*]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=<YOUR USER>
autologin-user-timeout=0

[SeatDefaults]
allow-guest=false

It autologins in as YOUR USER nicely.

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