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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" style="task" id="user-autologin" xml:lang="te">
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<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="shell-exit"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.8" version="0.1" date="2013-04-04" status="review"/>
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<credit type="author copyright">
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<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
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<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
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<desc>Set up automatic login for when you switch on your computer.</desc>
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<mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
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<mal:name>Praveen Illa</mal:name>
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<mal:email>mail2ipn@gmail.com</mal:email>
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<mal:years>2011.</mal:years>
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<title>Log in automatically</title>
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<p>You can change your settings so that you are automatically logged in to
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your account when you start up your computer:</p>
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<p>Open <app>Settings</app> from the <gui>Activities</gui> overview.</p>
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<p>Open the <gui>Users</gui> panel from <app>Settings</app>.</p>
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<p>Select the user account that you want to log in to automatically at
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<p>Press <gui style="button">Unlock</gui> and enter your password.</p>
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<p>Toggle the <gui>Automatic Login</gui> switch to <gui>On</gui>.</p>
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<p>When you next start up your computer, you will be logged in automatically.
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If you have this opiton enabled, you will not need to type in your password
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to log in to your account which means that if someone else starts up your
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computer, they will be able to access your account and your personal data
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including your files and browser history.</p>
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<p>If your account type is <em>Standard</em>, you cannot change this
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setting; your system administrator
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<link href="help:system-administrator-guide/user-autologin">can change this
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setting</link> for you.</p>