> That being said, I think it would be nice if Google made this particular functionality optional. For some shared user environments where you want to maintain

> That being said, I think it would be nice if Google made this particular functionality optional. For some shared user environments where you want to maintain the illusion of privacy (e.g. "family computer"), it might be nice to force password to view more sensitive information (e.g. e-mail). Agreed. No difference for me since I have my Google powered mail all going into Mail.app which does not require a password, but in some shared environments I definitely see the point. Though in a shared environment you should be using different accounts otherwise stuff like Google Drive and Dropbox don't really make sense anyway.