Friday, 6 May 2011

Temporarily disable automatic login

This hint is for programs like Undercover and others.

If your Mac is stolen, you need to provide a way for the thief to login in your computer, so those programs can track your Mac, otherwise you are in trouble.

Perhaps you didn't put a password in your account to allow autologin. But this isn't secure enough. Or you need to create a guest account to allow the login, so you can put a password in your main account.

The problem is that every time your machine boots, you need to choose your user. It would be handy if your guest account would login by itself. But then you would need to logout first and after that login in your main account.

You just need to press and hold the Shift key during the boot ONLY when the Blue screen appears. It will disable autologin and you can choose between your accounts.

So you can put a password in your account, and enable the automatic login for the guest acc ...

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