Windows Auto-Login

cwalcott2 · March 7, 2016

I am experiencing the issue where the last user of the day shuts down the computer they don't log off, then when the computer is started that user is automatically logged in, there is 4 accounts, 1 Administrator, and 3 standard accounts. the administrator account has a password but the standard accounts do not. the owner of the computer doesn't want the standard accounts to have passwords.

The issue occurs on ~24 other computers.

DevilishBooster · March 7, 2016

From the "~24 other computers", I'm guessing this is in regards to a business?

If so, I think you need to intensely stress to the owner what a monumental security vulnerability it is to have not only one computer with multiple unsecured accounts, but over 20 with unsecured accounts. If he cares about his business AT ALL, he will implement better security.

As for disabling it, if you are using Windows 7 (as I am guessing you are) you should be able to disable (haha! punny...) auto login from the User Accounts page in the Control Panel.

cwalcott2 · March 7, 2016

15 minutes ago, DevilishBooster said:

From the "~24 other computers", I'm guessing this is in regards to a business?

If so, I think you need to intensely stress to the owner what a monumental security vulnerability it is to have not only one computer with multiple unsecured accounts, but over 20 with unsecured accounts. If he cares about his business AT ALL, he will implement better security.

As for disabling it, if you are using Windows 7 (as I am guessing you are) you should be able to disable (haha! punny...) auto login from the User Accounts page in the Control Panel.

It is for a teacher in a school, not a buisness.

He is running Windows 10 Pro

DevilishBooster · March 7, 2016

14 minutes ago, cwalcott2 said:

It is for a teacher in a school, not a buisness.

He is running Windows 10 Pro

The security concern still applies. If these computers are connected to the school network, and they have accounts that do not have any kind of secure login requirements, then it could be super easy for someone that wants to hack the network to get it, especially with a social-engineering attack on students. And given the amount of personal information on a school's network, that is a huge security concern. As for disabling auto login on Win10, I haven't had to do that yet so I would have to look it up.