resume from suspend doesn't present a locked screen

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Apr 14 23:25:18 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:19:54PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 18:04 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > In F15 Beta, suspending doesn't lock the screen, so resuming from
> > suspend-to-ram doesn't ask you to enter your password--I think this is
> > a security risk (or at least an inconvenience) because anyone could
> > come along later and access your session if you forget to manually
> > lock the screen.
> > 
> > Would the desktop team consider implementing auto-screen-lock on
> > suspend please?
> 
> It does for me, and has for weeks.

Strange.  I'm all up-to-date as well, but it has /never/ done this
correctly for me.  I most recently re-installed from the F15 Beta TC2
i686 Live image.  Could this be a setting that is different on the
Live image vs. DVD?


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