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

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
>
>> On 3/24/2010 10:13 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>>> That still wont guarantee access to user files. If you use ecryptfs
>>> (the default encryption system for /home on Ubuntu live CDs) then even
>>> having physical access won't give you immediate access to files in the
>>> user home directory.
>>
>> I didn't think auto logon was an option if you were using encryption...
>> at least it's a very bad idea since it defeats the purpose of encryption
>> in the first place.  Most people don't use that though, so...
>
> I'm having some trouble imagining how auto-login would even work with
> encrypted filesystems - auto-decryption, too?

It doesn't work.  As it shouldn't work.