LightDM not asking for password, logs in with just one click

[xyzzyman]

I turned off auto-login, but now lightdm just shows a large 'login' button that when clicked logs me into my account with asking for a password... I changed my password and it didn't matter. Not finding anything about this on the forums. Anyone ever experienced something similiar?

I've looked at the conf files in /etc/lightdm/ and they are all set for not auto-logging in.

[Bobhuber]

Thats part of the users and groups program included in gnome system tools package for gnome3.
user-admin and is one of the login options.

[xyzzyman]

Thats part of the users and groups program included in gnome system tools package for gnome3.
user-admin and is one of the login options.

I have no idea what you're talking about as I think you have no idea what I was talking about. lol. When auto-login is turned off, Ubuntu normally switches back to asking for a password. It wasn't recognizing it on my system, and didn't even ask for a password. Where it should have shown a password entry box was just a large login-button.

Anyways I wound up reinstalling the OS so unfortunately I never did find the exactly failure. The lightdm configuration files look the same as before. It's possible I installed a custom DEB at some point that changed something. So dead thread.

[Bobhuber]

I have no idea what you're talking about as I think you have no idea what I was talking about. lol. When auto-login is turned off, Ubuntu normally switches back to asking for a password. It wasn't recognizing it on my system, and didn't even ask for a password. Where it should have shown a password entry box was just a large login-button.

Anyways I wound up reinstalling the OS so unfortunately I never did find the exactly failure. The lightdm configuration files look the same as before. It's possible I installed a custom DEB at some point that changed something. So dead thread.

FYI - Under Ubuntu running gnome3 you have the option with autologin turned off to have the Login Box with a large Login- Button that does not require a password. All you have to do is hit the enter key to login.
Thats what I was talking about and I believe what you were describing.
Have a nice day.

[xyzzyman]

So that may have been the problem. I had gnome-shell on here before but I'd removed it. I just had unity. Maybe something left over was over-riding me turning off auto-login in Unity's control panel (Which I thought was the same as gnome3's, go figure.) Now I wish I'd clonezilla's the install first so I could go back and troubleshoot it now so I could submit the bug.

[danman33]

I have this same problem. I am using linux mint 12 with gnome 3 and I turned outo login on for my brothers friends and now that I turned it back off there is still a big login button instead of a password box. please help as I really dont want to reinstall.

[Bobhuber]

I have this same problem. I am using linux mint 12 with gnome 3 and I turned outo login on for my brothers friends and now that I turned it back off there is still a big login button instead of a password box. please help as I really dont want to reinstall.

Under gnome3 open users and groups from the applications menu (not from the system settings menu) and change it.

[sisco311]

Or simply make sure that your user is not in the nopasswdlogin group:

sudo gpasswd -d username nopasswdlogin

where username is your login name.

[danman33]

Thank you so much, that did the trick!

[vikxmc]

Or simply make sure that your user is not in the nopasswdlogin group:

sudo gpasswd -d username nopasswdlogin

where username is your login name.

Thanks a lot...