To auto-login or to not auto-login?

[Roelof de Groot]

Yeah, maybe you should give them a gdm login with clickable pictures for
username.
THen they only have to fill in their pasword. 
Most non-technical users have seen/used windows xp before, so a
clickable picture is familiar for them if they used their windows xp
with multiple accounts on it for family use...
Think I would do that...


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:26 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Get him to login.  Make it sound like a feature rather than an
> inconvenience.  Which, of course, it is.  Point out that this is
> indicative of the excellent security in Linux.  Which may not be
> entirely accurate, but why bother a non-technical user with technical
> details?  :)
> 
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