Automatic login questions

i tried to find answers to this, but couldnt find the exact problem in other threads.
i have 2 users on my iMac. we never shut down, so i dont really care if there is automatic login, but i would rather have it off and start up at the login screen. but is there a way that my wife does not have to enter her password to get into her profile? she just want to click on her icon and be on her profile instead of having to enter a password. it just gets laborious.

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Hi dutchgenius,
Now that you have Allan's answer about the situation you don't really care of (as you never shut down),
here's an answer for your question,
that is,
having to enter a password when logging in from one User Account to the other:
- Unfortunately, the only way is to set her account with no password
(blank/mouseclick field + blank/mouseclick confirmation field)
from the start,
(this way there is not even a login window step)
although I guess it is also possible to change her password to "blank/mouseclick" in the Accounts preferences
(not sure in that case there is not still a login window but no more password needed).
I wouldn't do that even for a standard account, though, oh well,
but,
if she has admin powers then no, definitely don't do it.
Axl

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Last edited by Lockheed (2014-10-22 12:43:57)

Perhaps "grep autologin -R /etc /usr/lib" would point you to something.
-edit-
Maybe grep for "getty", as apparently "-a" is equivalent to "--autologin".
-edit-
Okay. Remove "-a" in the file you pasted.
-edit-
You could also remove the symlink and the file it points to and create there a symlink to the file coming with systemd, as your file differs somewhat from what I have.
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Last edited by lucke (2014-10-01 12:12:35)

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