I'm assuming since Quantal and Raring are so close to end-of-life (April 2014 and January 2014 respectively) that it is unlikely that anyone will upgrade from precise to these releases and thus loose this feature. If you are on this releases you can always compile the packages with this support yourself from lp:lightdm/1.4 and lp:lightdm/1.6.
** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Quantal) ** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Raring) -- 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/1190425 Title: lightdm should allow packages to override defaults in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in Light Display Manager 1.2 series: Fix Committed Status in Light Display Manager 1.4 series: Fix Committed Status in Light Display Manager 1.6 series: Fix Committed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: [Impact] The /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file is a conffile, which means that packages are not allowed to modify it. As a result, if any package is modifying /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf on installation to set 'greeter-show-manual-login=true', will cause users of this package to have conffile prompts on future upgrades. It would be helpful if lightdm had some supported mechanism for packages to override the defaults in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf - such as an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d directory . [Test Case] * Create autologin file, as shown below. This will fail on precise, but work fine on saucy/trusty. $ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-ubuntu.conf [SeatDefaults] autologin-user=ubuntu-or-any-other-user-on-system [Regression Potential] * none that I could see, and is backport from upstream [Other Info] * Has been tested, and works. * Merge https://code.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/1.2 against precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1190425/+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
