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--- microsoft_windows:terminalserver:nextcloud [2023/11/08 03:05] – rodolico
+++ microsoft_windows:terminalserver:nextcloud [2023/11/08 03:11] (current) – rodolico
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   - Set the Windows admin user to automatically be logged in on system startup
+**Warning**: If the admin user is ever logged out, backups of Public Documents will stop without warning. Therefor, access to the Windows admin user should be limited.
+===== Auto Login User =====
+==== Easy Way ====
 Microsoft provides a manual way to automatically log in a user on system startup, but they also have a utility in their sysinternals package that provides a basic GUI to allow you to do it. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon. An additional benefit is that the Autologon utility encrypts the password. This is the recommended procedure.
-===== Manual Setup =====
+==== Manual Setup ====
 If you want to set up the autologon manually, create a .reg file with the following content, then run it.
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 Obviously, replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with the correct values for your system. **Warning**: the password is stored in plain text using this approach.
-===== Lock Screen on new session =====
+==== Lock Screen on new session ====
 The only issue with this is that the user is logged in, with an open session when the server boots. One process I have not tried, but is well documented, is to create a startup script for that user which will automatically lock the screen, requiring a password to unlock.