Screensaver lock asks for password 2 or 3 times

Christopher Lemire christopher.lemire at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 20:32:27 UTC 2010


When I was using Lucid, the screensaver when locking my screen would
ask for the password 2 times. After the first time of entering it, the
black would go away for about 1 second, and I'd see my desktop
followed by it turning black again and prompting me to enter my
password again. Then it would unlock. After reinstalling with Maverick
10.10 64-bit, it has been doing the same thing up until lately. Now I
must enter my password 3x correctly for it to completely unlock. Using
the ubuntu alternate installer (for my raid0 setup), I told it to
encrypt my /home directory as well. Instead, I get a folder in my home
with the name Private encrypted. It is pretty useless. I didn't know
Ubuntu was not using LUCS and wouldn't encrypt my entire /home
partition, but next time, I will make sure that that is what I get. I
just suspected that this encryption ubuntu is using might have
something to do with me having to enter the password 3 times now.
Maybe somebody on the list can compare configuration files with me
that might be the culprit. Thanks.

-- 
Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0

gpg --recv-keys E13B0909

Key fingerprint = 3E1A 9103 EF3D 4885 6866  E9DE C69F 18B3 E13B 0909




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