Ubuntu
gdm3 package

  1. Bug #1547297
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1547297

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote : Re: No auto login in Ubuntu GNOME Xenial

autologin works if you set it in '/etc/gdm3/custom.conf'

Seems there is some confusion about what "Automatic Login" in the user panel really does, see linked upstream bug.