Comment 5 for bug 290467

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Dougie Richardson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> If that is the consensus opinion, for automatic user access then fair
> enough but:
>
> "If I could have an automatic login for root, that would be
> preferrable."
>
> We are asking for a totally unprotected and open system with full access
> rights. Default super user access is the primary reason that there are
> huge numbers of Windows XP vulnerabilities, attacks and zombie machines.

Yes, obviously we wouldn't document logging in as root. But automatic
login for regular users is a feature of the operating system, and
something that Windows users will frequently be interested in.

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Matthew East
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