Mini suddenly asking for password

Hi all,
My mini is suddenly asking for a login user password when I turn it on. I have not made any changes in preferences or whatsoever. How can this happen and how do I turn it off?
Thanks!
Sebastiaan.
p.s. Luckily I wrote my password down, so I am able to login.

Can't really say what might have caused this, but hopefully it'll be easy to fix:
Open System Preferences, and select the Accounts section. Select Login Options at the bottom of the user list (you may have to click the padlock at the very bottom of the dialog box first). From the options presented to you, check the 'Automatically log in as' box, and follow your nose from there.

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