[LightDM] Autologin (lightdm) questions

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:13:19 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > At Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:48:39 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> # apt-cache show lightdm
> >> ...
> >> Maintainer: Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at ubuntu.com>
> >> ...
> >> Version: 1.11.4-0ubuntu1
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >>
> >> # apt-get changelog lightdm
> >> lightdm (1.11.4-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium
> >>
> >> * New upstream release:
> >> - Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
> >> - Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid
> >> which we are faking
> >> - dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
> >> * debian/lightdm.service:
> >> - Don't test for specific installation path
> >>
> >> -- Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:50:16 +1200
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >> This is on 14.10.
> >
> > Will this be backported (or whatever) for 14.04 LTS? I don't want to
> > 'upgrade' to a non-LTS version -- I want to use a *stable* release that has
> > long term support.
> 
> I have no idea whether it'll be backported. You'd have to ask on
> ubuntu-devel-discuss or on the lightdm list

I added the lightdm to the Cc list.

> 
> You don't need to upgrade your entire system to 14.10. You can just
> pull in lightdm and, possibly, its dependencies from 14.10.

OK, I am not very familiar with Ubuntu's packaging system and repository 
system (I am much more familiar with RedHat, specifically CentOS, with EPel, 
Rpmforge, and ELRepo).  I also don't want to inflict an unstable system upon 
users who are not very sophisticated computer users.  One of the reasons for 
using a LTS release is that it should be conservative and stable.

> 

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