*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 577563 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577563
Hello,
I just ran into this problem. Here's what I've found: you cannot
automatically login or do a passwordless login if your home directory is
encrypted. When you switch to the terminal and log in, you're
decrypting your home directory. Thus, once you've logged in through the
terminal, you can log in to your desktop by going back to the login
screen through "ctrl+alt+F8" or a "sudo service gdm restart".
I almost couldn't log into my Xubuntu because of this.
I went to "Users and Groups" and selected "Don't ask for password on
login". When "Login Screen Settings" wouldn't let me log in
automatically (my username was not selectable), I assumed it was a bug,
not a warning, so I manually edited the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file to let
me log in automatically. Because I still wanted my computer to be
(mostly) secure, I enabled the lock screen after login. But when gdm
tried to automatically log in, the screen would go blank and then I
would be kicked back to the login screen because my home directory was
encrypted.
The reason I went down this rabbit hole was to have wireless
automatically enabled when (X)ubuntu starts.
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Home directory won't be decrypted if user password isn't asked
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581303
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