Jaunty: Sleep/Suspend to ram inconsistency. Possible security issue.

[marc]

Willy Hamra said...
> 2009/4/20 marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When using Sleep from the Battery Monitor widget, all is good and on
> > wake-up the screen is locked (as set in System Settings/Lock screen on
> > resume).
> >
> > However, when using Leave/Suspend to RAM, the screen is not locked on
> > wake-up.
> >
> > This just came to light when someone, innocently, gained access to my
> > machine.
> >
> > Could someone please confirm that they are seeing the same thing.
> > Thanks.
> >
> 
> i have never used the battery widget since this is a desktop, and
> always used the ones in the application launcher.

I don't see Sleep and Hibernate in the app launcher.

> or, in many cases, i use the "sudo pm-hibernate" command, since i'm in
> konsole more than hald the tme. and i can confirm the screen doesn't
> get locked in both! someone, once, psted a dbus command on the list,
> if using that dbus command, it locks

Yes, pm-suspend doesn't lock here either.

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Cheers,
Marc