[LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

[drew Roberts]

On Monday 18 March 2013 13:19:52 Len Ovens wrote:
> On Mon, March 18, 2013 9:22 am, Louigi Verona wrote:
> > It was Len Ovens who game me the Settings -> Users and Groups advice.
> > Nevertheless, I will check this option again. Will report back ;)
>
> If that requires still clicking login then the only option is to replace
> lightdm with the session that lightdm would start for you (run as the user
> in question). (that I can see) Switching lightdm to another *dm may also
> offer a solution. I thought kdm might. And I don't know, maybe lightdm
> does have a setting to autolog a default user.

I have it logging in automatically, I think by 
editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

>
> So far as I know this would require editing files. To replace lightdm with
> a session startup... edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager to have su
> $user -c startx or whatever. The su may have to have it's full path. This
> is not a general user setup, it really is an admin job. Any mission
> critical uses should have someone with admin abilities anyway. This is not
> normal desktop use.

I don't mind editing files, I was responding to the security question posed 
with an example of when you might want an autologin.

Thanks for the help.

all the best,

drew