Raspberry Pi auto login without etc/inittab

Question

I would like to settup my Raspberry Pi to auto login in a specific user. I googled this and the solutions that i found were about editing the /etc/inittab file. My problem i

Answer 1

I found this, which is the only thing that worked for me.

Automatic Login for LightDM

Open the terminal and make first a backup of the file we are going to edit:

su - 
gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.back

Edit now this file:

gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

or

nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Uncomment these two lines:

autologin-user=USERNAME
autologin-user-timeout=0

Replace USERNAME with your own username. Save the file and exit. Run now this command so that changes are taken into effect:

dpkg-reconfigure lightdm