# Moodle auto-login guests

Normally public Moodle sites are public in the sense that you have to login as <span class="caps">GUEST</span>, with no password or registration required. You just click on the <span class="caps">LOGIN</span> AS <span class="caps">GUEST</span> button and get into the site.

But the setting below allows you to automatically treat visitors as <span class="caps">GUESTS</span>, with no <span class="caps">LOGIN</span> AS <span class="caps">GUEST</span> button.

The setting is called ‘auto-login guests’ and is located under:  
Administration &gt; Users &gt; Permissions &gt; User Policies

The description for the ‘auto-login guests’ setting is:   
*Should visitors be logged in as guests automatically when entering courses with guest access?*

This appears to be a global setting, and needs to be changed by the Administrator.

*Thanks to Jose Hales-Garcia for finding this answer.*