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 <
vodhner@cox.net> 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
>
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