Login Screen

Basic Help & Support
#1

Hi All,

After a suprisingly smooth install everything seems to be working well. One quick question, I’d like there to be a traditional lockout screen present after boot. I really enjoy the lock screen function in the rightclick menu, is there a way to make that lock screen display on “first login” after boot?

1 Like
Log in screen gone
#2

Hello sir,

I’m not 100% for that but you should be able to disable auto-login from the lighdm-gtk-greeter settings menu. Generally ArchLabs uses LightDM as a greeter and more specifically Pantheon Greeter.
You can always play around with the settings of those. :slight_smile:

#3

I just did a quick test, you can edit the configuration file of LightDM (located in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ) and you can remove/comment out the line autologin-user=[user] , after that you should get the greeter displayed after your next reboot.

1 Like
#4

Thats how I did it.

1 Like
#5

Thanks for the guidance, I’ll start there.

1 Like
#6

@IVN You may also want to do this as well using your terminal:

sudo groupadd -d nopasswdlogin

Editing the LightDM.config file is only part of the solution. But on the right track

1 Like
#7

What’s the full and complete solution please?

#8

And

sudo groupadd -d nopasswdlogin

#9

The option -d is an invalid option, says my Terminal. What should -d do?

#10

Hi demo,-d deletes the user from the group. Go to the following to get an understanding of groups and permissions:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups
#11

Thanks. But the point is, that groupadd has no -d Option. Check out man groupadd.
I guess from what I read is, that one needs to fire this one: gpasswd -d user nopasswdlogin
I can’t test it, because I don’t want to break the system. Can you confirm my command is correct?

#12

That’s correct I forgot the user part or you can use $USER. Sorry about that, too many irons in the fire at the moment.

#13

Just to make it official and for someone looking here in the future for help, what is the full correct command then? Thanks

#14

First go to:

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.config

Then comment out:

user=[user]

So that it looks like:

    #user=[user]

Then in your favorite terminal type in the following:

sudo gpasswd -d $USER autologin

3 Likes
#15

A post was split to a new topic: How to change avatar on sign in screen

#16

Looks like that user group is called autologin, so then the correct comand is:
sudo gpasswd -d $USER autologin

1 Like
#17

Thanks @fitter I was using the old group name, and will correct on my post.