by Ramesh Natarajan on August 14, 2009
Question: What is a timed login in Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? How does it work?
Answer: If you have created a guest account on your laptop, you may want the guest account to automatically login when you reboot the machine.
But, wait. You don’t want that guest account to login automatically when you want to login using your account.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on July 24, 2009
Question: How to enable automatic login in Ubuntu or Kubuntu ?
Answer: You can enable auto login in Ubuntu using the following 3 simple steps.
Please understand that it is not security best practices to enable the automatic login. Do this only if you are in a controlled environment and very confident that nobody will have physical access to the system except you. You may like this feature if you have a system that doesn’t have any sensitive information and you use it only to browse internet. On those systems, you may want to setup a guest account and enable automatic login for guest account as explained below.
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