You have been subscribed to a public bug: When you create an account with the graphical gnome UI, it does not ask for the user to enter a password. But if you log out and log back in to that account, lightdm DOES require a password to log in. If you do not enter a password for the account before you log out (which there is no prompt for whatsoever), you are fully unable to log in.
Also, there are option is the password section of the Gnome UI for account creation such as "ask for password on first log in", that are completely useless with lightdm and are VERY misleading to a new user. I tried to show a tech friend of mine Ubuntu, and he was almost instantly turned off my the lack of cohesion between the log in screen and creating users....which is kind of a no-brainer ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- No unity between creating account and lightdm in Oneiric https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879949 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs