June 11, 2016

passwordless login in lightdm

i've mentioned before here, here, here and here that i prefer using the keyboard than the mouse for increased productivity. i also use lightdm as my display manager from which i invoke stumpwm.

since mostly i'm the only person using my desktop i like to be auto-logged-in into my system. i don't care much about security because i use colemak as my keyboard layout and hence any person using my system won't be able to use it anyways ;)

it's really very easy to enable passwordless login in lightdm. simply uncomment "autologin-user" and put in your userid there, as below

autologin-user=[userid]

that's it! although it's super simple, i'm keeping it here for my own future reference O:-)

Tags: passwordless linux lightdm login stumpwm