To auto-login or to not auto-login?

[Yorvik]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Okay, say I give a computer to a non-technical user willing to try 
> Ubuntu. Should it be set to auto-login?
> 
> On the one hand, he'll think it's annoying to login every time. On the 
> other, he's more likely to forget his password if he never has to type 
> it and that'll be a problem for installing software.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with non-technical users?

It depends on what they're used to.  My father and his friend both use 
ubuntu and are quite happy logging on, probably because they had to at 
the classes they went to.

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Cheers

SteVe