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I was playing around with "User accounts" and somehow set automatic login. Now, when I start my PC, it just has one button named as "login". Clicking that button, directly logs me in to my PC.



There is no music or no asking for password while logging in. As a side effect, it asks me separately for keyring password



How to disable auto login and make login/keyring password unified again like before?



NOTE: Attempting to disable Automatic Login from System Settings > User Accounts does not work.



This is the content of my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf (where I have commented the autologin for my username mgandhi):



[SeatDefaults]

greeter-session=unity-greeter

user-session=ubuntu

#autologin-user=mgandhi

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Ok, finally the problem is solved. I got an email from an occasional stack-exchange visitor Mr. Rafter. Following is the way:




  • Run sudo grep nopasswd /etc/*

  • This will display at least 2 lines:



    /etc/group:nopasswdlogin:x:112:`<login name>`   
    
/etc/gshadow:nopasswdlogin:!::`<login name>`

  • Edit those files with sudo and remove only <login name> from those lines and save.


  • Go to "User Accounts" and disable the automatic login

  • Restart the computer and now it should ask for the password again!


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