auto-login and "privacy -> auto screen lock -> disable" do not work

[Wolf]

On my machine, after booting I always have to type in my password, allthough I set "settings -> users -> auto login".

The same happens after resume from suspend, allthough I set "privacy -> auto screen lock" to "disabled". In both cases the screen attached appears.

My system:
ubuntu 16.10
gnome desktop
lightdm

Cheers,
Wolf

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I don't think this issue is directly related to evolution, so I've taken the liberty of moving this to gnome-control-center.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Marking as Invalid because the release is EOL is not correct. Marking as Incomplete. Also, 18.04 is (at the time of writing) still in development, and you should expect some breakage.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Release_has_reached_End_of_Life_.28EOL.29

Reporter, is this still present on 17.10 or 16.04?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

dino99, please don't recommend that users use Ubuntu 18.04 now. It's not even officially in beta yet.

Also, there's no reason to recommend that users use the minimal install option for this bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Wolf (drechsel)]

The problem persists on "bionic" as well. Keep trying... (-;

[Wolf (drechsel)]

After a clean install of bionic, the system behaved as expected for some days.
Now, I get autologin after system boot, but have to type my password after resume from sleep again. It happens with nvidia and nouveau driver.

[Wolf (drechsel)]

It's really annoying that this silly bug still persists!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you describe what is the issue exactly on bionic and add a journalctl log? From your description it doesn't seem like a bug
the autologin setting is for boot only, not for bypassing the screensaver on resume from suspend
the "auto lock screen" is for idle not for after suspend

[Wolf (drechsel)]

When booting my system, it does auto-login without typing in my password. That's fine.
When I resume the system from suspend, I always have to type in my password, but there is no need for that, I want auto-login after suspend&resume as well.

As I understood @seb128, this is correct behaviour. True?
In that case I'd like to state that this does not make much sense for me, IMHO there should be an option to enable "auto-login after suspend&resume" as well.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

More people are using bug 1740792 to discuss this issue so let's merge with that one.

[Wolf (drechsel)]

Agreed!