---
title: "Set up auto-login for guests"
slug: "set-up-auto-login-for-guests"
tags: ["Totara Learn", "Site Administrator", "How-to"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:39Z
canonical: "totara.help/set-up-auto-login-for-guests"
---

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# Set up auto-login for guests

If you have [set up guest access](/19/docs/configure-guest-access) on any of your courses, you may prefer for visitors to be automatically logged in to your site as the **Guest** role.

To automatically log in guests when they access a course with guest access:

1. Go to *Quick-access menu >* *Users > Permissions > User policies*.
2. Tick the **Auto-login guests** box.
3. Go to *Quick-access menu >* *Plugins > Authentication > Manage Authentication*, and check that **Guest login button** is set to **Show**.
4. Go to *Quick-access menu > Security > Site policies* and enable the **Open to Google** setting so that the Google search robot will be allowed to enter your site as a Guest. In addition, people coming in to your site via a Google search will automatically be logged in as a Guest.

## Next steps

- [](/19/docs/configure-default-site-settings-for-guest-access)[Configure guest access](/19/docs/configure-guest-access)
- [Configure default site settings for guest access](/19/docs/configure-default-site-settings-for-guest-access)

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