Bug 665027

Summary:	Autologin fails although the convenience settings are set properly in Configure Desktop
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Kevin Miller <kevin_miller>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ctrippe, its.matzup
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Description Kevin Miller 2011-01-18 03:56:09 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-3.1 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1

I originally set my machine up with a single (excluding root) non-privileged account.  Later my son wanted to do some video editing so I went into YaST and added a second account and disabled auto-login so he wouldn't have to wait until my login process was complete,then log me out and himself in.

After he was done, I went into the Configure Desktop, convenience area and reset it to allow me to auto-login.  However it wouldn't log me in automatically.  I tried several times.

I was able to go into YaST, Users and Groups, select the expert options pull down and reset it via that mechanism, after which it worked.

I haven't tried changing the setting since I got it working again, so I don't know if it was a one-off bug or if it is reproducible.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Build system with one non-root user, configured for auto-login, run level 5.
2.Log in, then restart the system to make sure autologin works as advertised.
3.Open YaST, and create a second user.
4:Go into Configure Desktop, and turn off auto-login convenience feature.
5:Restart system.  You should have a standard login screen now.
6:Login as the new user, then logout.
7:Login as the original user, and re-enable the convenience auto-login option.
8:Restart the system.
Actual Results:  
As described above, when I tried to re-enable the auto-login, it didn't work.

Expected Results:  
When I turn the computer on, I expected to be taken to my desktop w/o entering credentials.

As noted in the summary above, changing the setting in YaST worked.  I don't know if this is a KDE but or a system bug.

Comment 1 Christian Trippe 2012-01-29 19:55:12 UTC

long standing SUSE-bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267903 ***

Comment 2 Matthias Drexler 2012-01-29 20:41:03 UTC

(My openSuse is not in English, so some Buttons have maybe a little bit different name)

For a workaround:
- Don't try to change anything in "systemsettings" -> "Login-Manager". It is a shame of openSuse/KDE and full of BUGs. (Maybe you can vote fot Bug 267903, or do something else to let them fix it.)
- If you want wo edit the auto-login, you can do this on Yast2 -> "Manage User and Groups" -> "Options for experts" (right-down corner) -> "Settings for login"