resume from suspend doesn't present a locked screen

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Apr 14 23:26:15 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:25:18PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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?

s/TC2/RC2/ - i.e. Beta


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