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Set autologin in lightdm configuration file to the currently logged in user.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| #Tested on Fedora 25 MATE (lightdm version 1.18.3). | |
| conf=$"[SeatDefaults] | |
| autologin-user=$USER | |
| autologin-user-timeout=0" | |
| echo "$conf" | sudo tee '/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/custom-local.conf' | |
| #Another way but may be overwritten with updates. | |
| #sed -i -e '1,/^\[Seat:\*\]$/b' -e "s/^#autologin-user=$/autologin-user=$USER/" /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | |
| #sed -i -e '1,/^\[Seat:\*\]$/b' -e 's/^#autologin-user-timeout=$/autologin-user-timeout=0/' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | |
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