Hi, If I'm understanding correctly, you'd like your computer to go directly to your Desktop without a Login screen. That's not a recommended behaviour because if your machine is stolen or accessed by someone else, they have easy access to all your personal files. Now, if that isn't a concern to you, then do the following:
* go to the Apple menu and choose System Preferences. * Select Users & Groups. * Unlock the pane by pressing on the lock near the bottom of the pane, then enter your password. * Interact with the Users, Groups & Login Options List near the top of the pane. * navigate to the last item in that list, it should be Login Options. * Stop Interacting with the list then navigate right to the Automatic Login pop-up. * select which user you want to automatically login to on startup. * close System Prefs. That should do it. A few things to note though. If you have iCloud keychain turned on, this is definitely a bad idea as your saved passwords and such are more easily accessed by anyone who gains access to your machine. If you don't use that feature, then it's not such a big deal other than what I mentioned earlier. If the Automatic login pop-up is dimmed, then you did not unlock the pane yet. If this is the way you wish to have your computer configured, make sure that you still have a password set so that your Mac, at least, requires that Admin password for installations or modifications to the system. It will need to be a password that is easy for you to remember since you're not needing to enter it very often. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Robert C <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > Got it using the Create a New Keychain option. Now I need to change an > option so I do not have to enter the login password each time I boot up. > Where would I do that? Thanks again. > > Quote of the nanosecond . . . > Oxymoron: Congressional Oversight > Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn > E-mail- > [email protected] > > On 3/26/2014 3:12 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It kind of depends. If you changed your password via the Terminal or from >> another user, then the Login password and Keychain are likely different. If >> you change your password for user Bob while logged in as Bob, then the login >> password and keychain will match. So, the easiest method to clean up this >> problem is simply to change your password again while logged in as that same >> user. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Robert C <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Some time ago, I found I had to reset my login password on the Mac and >>> that led to having to change the keychain password. Now I am working with >>> this again and want to know if the password for each is the same? Thanks. >>> >>> Quote of the nanosecond . . . >>> Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. >>> Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn >>> E-mail- >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
