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Have you installed kali in USB or made a bootable USB? Once you install kali it asks you to login with a password you provided when you were installing kali.

@defalt
Please... read my "Steps To Reproduce"
Yes, I have made bootable USB flash drives.

@broomdodger
Your steps to reproduce gives incorrect data. The 3rd step is given "Install on USB flash drive" while you are only mounting the iso on USB. So i was confirming if you actually meant it as bootable USB and not installation.

If you set kali live to sleep, it then asks you to enter default password "toor" on waking up the screen. If login at startup is available for other variants of kali then it can be added in suggested variants too.

Each desktop uses its own display manager and live-config is supposed to enable auto-login by default on most of them (when we boot a live image).

-light, -xfce and -lxde all use "lightdm".
-kde uses "sddm".

So it looks like the autologin integration within live-config is broken with current versions of those display managers.

With the problematic -light image, can you attach the content of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ? Can you tweak its content to get auto-login to work ? (you can restart the service with "systemctl restart lightdm")

With the problematic kde image, can you attach the content of /etc/sddm.conf ? Can you tweak its content to get auto-login to work ? (you can restart the service with "systemctl restart sddm")

In both cases, please show me the output of "ls /var/lib/live/config/" (to check which live-config components have been run).

Thanks for your help.

Note that I pushed a new kali-root-login (2017.2.1) which should fix the autologin with lightdm (it was a PAM problem). I haven't investigated the case of the KDE image with sddm.

With the problematic -light image,
can you attach the content of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ?

Yes attached.

Can you tweak its content to get auto-login to work ?
(you can restart the service with "systemctl restart lightdm")

After edit lightdm.conf and "systemctl restart lightdm" still NO autologin.
The login dialog is displayed and root/toor allows login.

kali-light is installed on my harddrive.
BTW thank you, kali-light is beautiful!

I edit my lightdm.conf to allow root autologin and autologin works
(the same edit as the live image where autologin fails).

Each desktop uses its own display manager and
live-config is supposed to enable auto-login by default

Thank you for the clarification,
I did not know what was the default.

I checked the KDE image and the auto-login works with sddm. So I don't think that there are any issue left, closing the ticket.