"Zaphod Beeblebrox" <Zaphod.Arisztid.Beeblebrox@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Sam E" <no.email@all.invalid> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
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>>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>>>> up.
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
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>> An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
>> multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.
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> And even more than that, a system configured for auto login allows
> parallelization of tasks. Start system, do other things while system
> starting and logging in, return to system when tasks done, use system. If
> auto login isn't configured, you have to wait for system to reach login
> screen, log in, wait for system to finish startup before you can use it.
> Personally, I don't use it for my workstations, but I can see the
> benefits. Why Gordon is so against it, and for that matter why he even
> cares, is beyond me.
>
Because actually it's a SECURITY thing. Apart from anything else...
It's no coincidence that the most secure Operating systems, UNIX, AIX, Linux
etc do NOT allow "passwordless logins".
I really do despair sometimes of the complete indifference of many Windows
users to computer security...