[X4U] Automatic Login

Allan Hise allan at hise.org
Wed Jan 18 05:32:50 PST 2006



On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2006, at 12:51 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:
>
>>> Methinks you have to go to SysPrefs->Accounts->unlock the lock, click
>> on Login
>>> OPTIONS, and reset it for auto-login there.
>> 
>> Thanks, that did it. It's interesting that you disable automatic login
>> in the Security preference, but have to enable it again both there and
>> in Accounts.
>
> It is indeed weird; makes you wonder what the logic is...
>

Since auto login is a security risk, it makes sense to disable it in the 
Security pane.
Since you need to specify what account to auto login into, you need to 
specify it in the accounts pane.

Not pretty, but logical (after a thought)


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