[solved] How to revert Automatic login to virtual console?

Long, long time ago (maybe 3 years back), I set up automatic login for my user. Now, I am trying to revert it so that the console asks me for username (unless it is avoidable) and password upon login.
So I though "Easy! I'll just go here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/au … al_console and delete the file mentioned there:
/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf
But the file is not present on my system. Instead, I have this:
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty\@tty1.service
# This file is part of systemd.
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
[Unit]
Description=Getty on %I
Documentation=man:agetty(8)
After=systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-quit-wait.service
After=rc-local.service
# If additional gettys are spawned during boot then we should make
# sure that this is synchronized before getty.target, even though
# getty.target didn't actually pull it in.
Before=getty.target
IgnoreOnIsolate=yes
# On systems without virtual consoles, don't start any getty. (Note
# that serial gettys are covered by [email protected], not this
# unit
ConditionPathExists=/dev/tty0
[Service]
Environment=TERM=linux
# the VT is cleared by TTYVTDisallocate
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noclear -a smith %I 38400
Type=idle
Restart=always
RestartSec=0
UtmpIdentifier=%I
TTYPath=/dev/%I
TTYReset=yes
TTYVHangup=yes
TTYVTDisallocate=yes
KillMode=process
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
# Unset locale for the console getty since the console has problems
# displaying some internationalized messages.
Environment=LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME= LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY= LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER= LC_NAME= LC_ADDRESS= LC_TELEPHONE= LC_MEASUREMENT= LC_IDENTIFICATION=
# Some login implementations ignore SIGTERM, so we send SIGHUP
# instead, to ensure that login terminates cleanly.
KillSignal=SIGHUP
[Install]
Alias=getty.target.wants/[email protected]
... but if I remove it, or even just uncomment the lines in the [Service] section, upon boot the console output stops at the last SystemD init message, and never gets to user/password prompt. I need to switch to other ttys to access it.
Last edited by Lockheed (2014-10-22 12:43:57)

Perhaps "grep autologin -R /etc /usr/lib" would point you to something.
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Maybe grep for "getty", as apparently "-a" is equivalent to "--autologin".
-edit-
Okay. Remove "-a" in the file you pasted.
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You could also remove the symlink and the file it points to and create there a symlink to the file coming with systemd, as your file differs somewhat from what I have.
ls -l /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jun 21 2012 /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected] -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
Last edited by lucke (2014-10-01 12:12:35)

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