I would suggest that you create a new Admin user, Log in as that user and verify it works. Delete the Company create user. Disabling the automatic login has several paths to execution. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45573/how-to-disable-auto-login-in-linux-mint On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:38 PM Victor Odhner wrote: > A vendor loaded Tom's new PC with Mint Cinnamon. It powers up without > authentication to a default user account. How do we disable that? > > The details: > > It was set up with one temporary admin user, named “user”, with password > “password.” > > So we set up the “tom” account, with admin status, and then made “user” an > ordinary user with its permissions turned off, and a serious password. > > We ran fine as “tom”, but when we shut down and restarted, it came right > up as “user” without authentication. > > We can log out of the “user” session and we get the login dialog so we can > get to the “tom” account. > > We could remove “user,” but I thought it might hang up looking for that > account. > > I did some web searching and they referred to two config files to be > adjusted, but one didn’t exist and the other had only one line which wasn’t > relevant to the issue. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Victor > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen