Zorin 18 Auto Login still req. Password

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Hi. I'm having a couple of little password issues and hoping someone can help solve them. I have Automatic Login enabled on this laptop but still get the password prompt at both boot up and after returning from "Suspend". I realize Auto Login is probably not the most secure but I'm not too worried as it's just me using this laptop and it very likely will never leave this place again.

I've researched this issue and it seems it may be due to the keyring not being unlocked automatically. That must be the case because I get both the regular password prompt and also an "Unlock Login Keyring" prompt. The suggested fix is to go to "Password & Keys" > "Default Keyring", then "change its encryption passphrase to an empty one". I can find "Password & Keys" but can't seem to find "Default Keyring". Is there still a "Default Keyring"?

Any thought or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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I use to try this option for my daughter's laptop but password is needed anyway, for security reasons because the system need permission to access this or that, at certain times.
The less annoyed way i found is to leave the password at login at least on Gnome - this is more easy on kde plasma ... :roll_eyes:

Did you choose encryption during installation ?

Settings > security privacy > lock screen in suspend mode (or something similar).

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No, no encryption and I've tried screen lock both on and off, doesn't matter.
Thanks.

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Ok ... wait for another opinion or even feedback ...
In the meantime you can have a look and search on Ubuntu's forum like here :

I personally recommend to leave the login password for Gnome users, just because it's very annoyed - but Gnome has good things to offerts too :wink:
Wish you get an answer, sorry for the late reply, i'm in France, so time lag i guess...

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Hi and thanks much for the input. I went back and disabled Auto Login, Auto Screen Lock & Lock Screen on Suspend and now only get one password req. and that's at boot up. I'll try that for a while, if that's the worst I have to deal with then it'll will probably be fine. Thanks again for the input.

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Ok, glad you find out a "solution" ...

You mean, login screen ?
On boot i see at least 2 possibilities, you have configured encryption while installing Zorin - you said no, as far as i understood.
Your BIOS/UEFI are set with password on boot ... :thinking:
Above this is a exemple Zorin Login scree.

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Correct, I get only that password login prompt at boot up and that's the only time I have to enter a password now unless I'm doing some commands in terminal. I can live with that. As far as encryption, if anything got encrypted it wasn't done deliberately! Thanks again for the help & I'll mark this one solved!

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