Sign in process requires password...

I erased one of my external firewire drives and installed Yosemite.  However during the process i was not paying close attention and set up the restart requiring a sign in with my password. I am the only person using my desktop iMac and find it most annoying to do a restart and walk away to do something or other leaving  my computer do its thing and when i come back now i have to enter my password for the computer to complete the sign in.  How do i change that?

System Preferences->Security->there should be an option to turn it on or off. I'm in Snow Leopard and don't remember the exact terminology. Alternatively, there should be the same option in the Users&Groups prefPane.
27" i7 iMac (Mid 2011) refurb, OS X Yo (10.10.1), Mavs, ML & SL, G4 450 MP w/10.5 & 9.2.2

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