password not checked on screen unlock
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On a system upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04:
When "don't ask for password on login" is checked for a user, previous screen locking would still require a password - the preference only applied to logins.
Now light locker(?) is showing a password dialog box, but it will accept any (or no) password for screen unlock, just as for login.
This might be a good change, but it was surely unexpected, and I found the previous functionality (being able to NOT require the PW for login but still require it for screen unlock) very useful, even if it might seem odd on the surface.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-screensaver (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Nov 25 08:29:52 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-08 (777 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120822.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Symptom: security
Title: Screen locking issue
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-03 (83 days ago)
affects: | gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) → light-locker (Ubuntu) |
affects: | light-locker (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu) |