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

[Phillip Susi]

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...