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

[Evan]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

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.

> and netbook
> boot speed has been the primary goal with boot speed optimizations
> AFAIK (although everyone benefits of course, a lot).

Granted.

Evan.