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

[Willy Hamra]

2009/4/20 marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>:
> marc said...
>> 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.
>
> This might also be of interest to folk with Suspend/Resume issues:
>
>  Suspend/Resume Call for Testing - Ubuntu 9.04 Beta
>
>  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-
> March/000556.html
>

as for me, since i hibernate most of the time, and my sisters dont
even use it, entering linux by mistake can ruin my work. so i set kdm
to autologin my user, and set a password on the linux entires of grub.
in other words, i advanced the asking for a password a bit earlier.
but as for suspend to RAM, this solution is not useful.


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