David wrote:
remove the line which starts with "autologin-user=" and save with ctrl+x
I'm safely home, with internet and support access, so I tried that, and ... what I feared happenned :
I answered the sudo password request in the terminal, edited the file, saved and closed the file, (^x, answered O for yes, ^X), reopened it to check the line was gone, closed it again and then rebooted.
Then came a user select windows, I selected same user, entered the password (no typo, I swear) as required, and ... authentication failed !
I tried 2 other user accounts (previously created), but encountered the same failure in authentication. (similar to point raised in my above question 2)
OK, no panic, I've used the live USB to add the removed line back to lightdm.conf, but it seems there is a real problem with users and password in Nx, isn't it ?