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

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Mon Apr 20 15:31:12 UTC 2009


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.

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324632

Seems that the kick-off/leave menu directly invokes pm-utils instead of 
using the new powerdevil stuff via dbus.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc





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