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I've got 11.10 on a desktop machine with two users. Both users have "Password" set to "Not asked on login" in Users Settings. At startup, either user can log in without a password. But once both users are logged in, it takes a password to switch between users.

In previous Ubuntus, you could override this by setting /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_lock_screen to True in gconf-editor. That is ignored in the Gnome 3 / Unity era.

Does anyone know a way to disable the password prompt when switching between users in Oneiric?

matthewn
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Only this worked out for me: 

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'true'

This disables screen lock on user switch and hibernation wakeup.

PS: gsettings has to be configured for every user seperately.

Dziamid
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Run this command:

sudo visudo

Then, at the end add this line:

user   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/su

This will disable the password check for the "su" command for the specified user.

cheers

bioShark
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