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

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Wed Mar 24 14:10:35 UTC 2010


On 3/24/2010 9:54 AM, Evan wrote:
> Why? I'm sure there are reasons, but my initial reaction is that any
> computer which can easily be stolen (ie laptop/netbook) should
> NEVER have auto-login enabled.

Why?  Given physical access to the machine, bypassing login is easy.




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