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My Account is the only account - the administrator account - and the blank space is there whether the dialog box is locked or unlocked, as is the complete absence of the Auto Login option at the bottom.

I have 14.04 installed. I have 3 drives, so researching through the other login questions suggests that my drive might be encrypted. If it is, I need simple to follow steps to fix this so Ubuntu will auto login.

All I want is for Ubuntu to auto login on startup. None of the other questions in the forums has been helpful.

This question seems to ask the same question as this: Ubuntu 14.10 Auto Login I'm wondering now if this is a serious flaw in 14 that can't be fixed, or changed. This seems to provide the answer for 12.04 - would it likely be the same for 14? How can I enable autologin for my user account when the option is not there?

Output for: 

$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,UUID,MOUNTPOINT:

NAME   TYPE UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda    disk                                      
└─sda1 part E8325C83325C58A0                         
sdb    disk                                      
├─sdb1 part 7e9949df-0e95-45f1-919d-23b449f415fd /    
├─sdb2 part                                          
├─sdb3 part CA66EB5F66EB4AB1                     /mnt/CA66EB5F66EB4AB1    
├─sdb4 part                                         
└─sdb5 part 4868A0F868A0E5C2                     


$ cat /home/.ecryptfs/$USER/.ecryptfs/Private.mnt
/home/warwick
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Go to System Settings > User Accounts. Make sure to press Lock / Unlock in the upper right corner of the window. Then you can use the switch to enable Automatic-Login.

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If you are using home folder encryption auto-login is not reasonable. But you can disable encryption if you follow the steps of the answer to the second linked question.

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