On 8/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Keating</b> <<a href="mailto:jkeating@redhat.com">jkeating@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:28:20 -0400<br>"Colin Walters" <<a href="mailto:walters@redhat.com">walters@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Right; this is the real solution to the stolen-laptop problem and I'm
<br>> all for it!<br><br>Except if your session was logged in </blockquote><div><br>Right, we should design for this because we're moving towards having an always logged in session:</div><a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2007/07/25/screensaver-extension/">
http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2007/07/25/screensaver-extension/</a><br>Which just makes sense because why would you ever log out? Generally you either suspend or switch users.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
when it got stolen (seen those<br>commercials about the pretty girl in the coffee shop? (: ). This is<br>why I want some sort of session timeout (other than the screensaver) on<br>how long these things sit unlocked for you to access them.
</blockquote><div><br>Hm. So we have right now three "I'm leaving the computer" buttons. One called "Suspend", one called "Hibernate", and one called "Lock Screen".<br>Differentiating between the first two is an unrelated bug, so that leaves us with Suspend and Lock screen. Why not just suspend (and save lots of power), and on un-suspend, you display the password prompt?
<br><br>Then you can change things so that if the system doesn't get a password response from unsuspend within say 2-3 minutes it shuts down, leaving all the /home or / or whatever encrypted with nothing running.<br><br>
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