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Espionage => Espionage 2 => Topic started by: ravedog on July 05, 2009, 01:09:25 AM

Title: Mail as a login item unlocked itself.
Post by: ravedog on July 05, 2009, 01:09:25 AM
I started my mac tonight when i got home from work, and one of the login items is Mail. I walked away from the computer to let it boot up and load everything, and came back to it and Mail was running. If I manually quit and relaunch Mail, it does ask me for my password.

Any ideas?

Followup: I noticed that "Autounlock at login" was checked so I am guessing that is the reason. However, why would anyone want that feature? If they want their data secured, a simple reboot of the machine would unlock all their data without any user interaction. Seems strange.
Title: Re: Mail as a login item unlocked itself.
Post by: greg on July 05, 2009, 01:01:44 PM
Quote from: "ravedog"Followup: I noticed that "Autounlock at login" was checked so I am guessing that is the reason. However, why would anyone want that feature? If they want their data secured, a simple reboot of the machine would unlock all their data without any user interaction. Seems strange.

Please see my response to you in this thread (http://www.taoeffect.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=51) for why this is a desirable feature.  You should have auto-login disabled (from the Accounts System Preferences), then they wouldn't be able to access that data.