I'm having several issues with this, and I have done hours of crawling blogs and forums and nothing works.
I'm running Raspbian Jessie, and I cannot get it to auto-login, either to the GUI or to command line. Things I've tried:
From multiple sources like here:
in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, in [SeatDefaults] I've tried uncommenting auto-login-user and timeout, (and putting pi and 0 respectively, and uncommenting greeter-show-manual-login=false, ther greeter-session, and user-session lines. All that any of these accomplished was disabling the GUI entirely. A side note, using raspi-config to switch whether it booted to desktop or command line never worked.
From multiple sources likehere:
commenting the getty tty1 line and adding the line they suggested. I've also tried using the same line with the flag as shown here.
I've looked around in inittab, init.d, rc, and a host of other things that I thought might be controlling start up scripts or GUIs or logins and I just can't figure this one out. I'm very new to Linux, so it's not surprising that I can't find it, but it's frustrating that the one thing that I'm finding over and over again does not work for me. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?