Configuring the Login Window
You can configure the Login window in several ways:
Enable the Automatic Login mode.
Control how user accounts appear in the window.
Disable the Restart and Shutdown buttons.
Show or hide the password hint.
Enabling Automatic Login
When you started Mac OS X for the first time, you were in the Automatic Login mode. In this mode, you don't have to enter login information; Mac OS X does it for you. This means that you don't have to enter a username and password each time that you start or restart your machine; the machine starts up just as Macs running previous versions of the operating system do.
CAUTION
You should enable Automatic Login mode only if you are the only person who uses your Mac. If you enable Automatic Login ...
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