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Most modern operating systems work with user accounts to grant people access to the system, and Ubuntu is no exception. You might not have noticed this—if during installation or when you personalized your system you selected the option to allow automatic logins, you are taken directly to your desktop when you boot your PC, thus masking the fact that a user is actually logging into the system.
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© 2011 Emilio Raggi, Keir Thomas, and Sander van Vugt
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Raggi, E., Thomas, K., van Vugt, S. (2011). Understanding Linux Users and File Permissions. In: Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3627-6_21
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