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

[Timo Jyrinki]

2010/3/24 Evan <eapache at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Note though that Ubuntu Netbook defaults to auto-login, and netbook
boot speed has been the primary goal with boot speed optimizations
AFAIK (although everyone benefits of course, a lot).

-Timo