> well, maybe part of the issue is that people should not follow random blogs on the internet telling them to do things
Well, perhaps that wouldn't be necessary if Ubuntu provided some documentation regarding how to set up full system encryption. :-) Anyway, unless you can point to something in that blog post that inadvertently added the user account to the nopasswdlogin group, I fail to see your point (I used the manual method, not the installation script, so you can see all the commands and GUI steps used in the process). Here's another "non-technical" user who appears to have run into the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1662174. It would be very helpful if we could identify how a user account might come to be added to the nopasswdlogin group (aside from "technical" users who know exactly what they're doing explicitly adding their account to the group). It's clear that some people are ending up with that setting without taking any explicit action to do so. Is it possible that merely enabling auto-login upon installation results in the account being added to the group? If not, any other ideas? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987330 Title: Insecure login -- not requesting password Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When I click the login link from the login page, my password is never requested -- instead, I am simply automatically logged in. This happens whether I get to the login screen via (1) starting up the machine, (2) logging out of a session, or (3) locking the screen and then clicking the "Switch user" button on the locked screen dialog. My entire system is encrypted in a LUKS volume, so I had initially turned automatic login on, as I thought login via password would be unnecessary given that I already have to enter my LUKS password to start up the machine. However, I noticed that when I locked my screen, instead of needing to provide my account password to unlock it, I could simply click "Switch user", and instead of switching to another user (there are no other users on my machine), I could then just click "Login" for my own account, and it would let me in without requesting my password. I thought this might be due to the automatic login setting, so I turned off automatic login. I have confirmed that the "autologin-user=<username>" line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf has changed to "auto-login=". Also, now that automatic login is off, I do get the login screen when I first start up the machine -- yet it still does not require my password. So, I don't think the problem is related to automatic login, as it happens with our without automatic login turned on. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Apr 23 09:10:05 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm LC_COLLATE=C PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/987330/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
