Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

[Evan]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Asif Youssuff <yoasif at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was just playing with the latest daily-live cd (testdrive is very
> cool!) and noticed that when installing, after entering a username and
> password, the "Require my password to log in" is selected.
>
> If the ureadahead daemon is optimized for auto-login ("slightly
> assumes you're using auto-login; so waits about 45s after the display
> manager starts before it stops reprofiling" from
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502), why is this the
> default option? Shouldn't the fastest boot be the one that is
> preselected, especially if the ureadahead daemon is optimized for this
> use case?

For security we definitely want users to enter their passwords by default.

However, given this default you raise a good point that ureadahead
should be optimized for this option, not for auto-login.

Evan