<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> 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: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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? :) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>