Can't enable automatic login

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Can't enable automatic login

For a few months now I have not been able to get my computer to automaticlaly log me in upon startup. Although in the "Accounts" Preference pane Automatic Login is enabled for the admin account I still get the blue screen on startup and have to type in my password.

This is very frustrating and I would like to be able to jsut have it start up on startup! Any ideas?

Thanks. TH

G5 Dual 2.0, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on May 31, 2009 2:29 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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May 31, 2009 2:32 PM in response to Smalley Bigs

Check whether it's disabled in the Security pane of System Preferences, and use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to repair permissions; you may also need to turn it off and back on.

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Answer 2

Smalley Bigs Author

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Jun 1, 2009 6:31 PM in response to Niel

That setting wasn't enabled and I repaired all of my permissions, and disabled/restarted/reenabled the login and I'm still getting the login window.

Any other ideas? this is baffling. I've even reinstalled the system software and i can't get it to just log me in on startup.

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Answer 3

Smalley Bigs Author

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Aug 19, 2009 3:44 PM in response to Smalley Bigs

this has never been resolved. I reinstalled System Software, made sure in the Security Panel that "Disable Automatic Login" isn't checked..

what else can I do?

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Answer 4

essenen

Level 1

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Aug 29, 2009 6:43 AM in response to Smalley Bigs

This seems never to have been solved so as I have finally managed to put this right on my computer I thought I'd share my result.

I used the disk utilities to repair permissions, shut down and started up the iMac again but was still presented with a log in window. I then went to the Accounts settings and Log in Options. The user was selected as automatic log in. I selected the option "disabled", then selected the user name again and it asked me for the password which I typed in. I then re-started the machine and it hasn't asked me for the password since!

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